[php-maint] fixed php4/php5 packages uploaded

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 11:12:40AM +0100, sean finney wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 15:55 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > In contrast, I'm greatly puzzled to learn that the pdo extension has been
> > built as a DSO and placed in the php5-common package.  If it's so "common"
> > that it doesn't get its own extension package, why isn't *this* extension
> > being built into the engines?

> i built it as a dso mostly so it could be turned on/off like everything
> else.  i also str seeing something in ./configure about needing to make
> it dynamic if the sqlite/mysql/pgsql pdo modules were also shared, but
> i might be misremembering that.  

Ok, I guess that's a solid reason if so.

> as for placement, i put it in -common because it didn't introduce any
> new dependencies, and -common was already arch: any instead of arch:
> all, so it let me avoid having to stuff it in a new package.

Fair enough.

I wonder if there's any reason to give it its own config file, though?  If
the module is always available, it could just as well be enabled in the
default php.ini for each SAPI.  Which, indeed might eliminate some of the
problems of users ending up with the module listed twice in their config.

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