[php-maint] [PATCH] New way to handle extensions

[Raphael Geissert]

Hello Steve,

On 30/05/07, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:53:05PM -0500, Raphael wrote:
> > Hello Steve,
>
> > First of all I would like to ask you to CC me on message replies as
> > I'm not in the list (I found the message in the list's archive).
>
> Well, it would be nice if you were using a mail client that supported
> setting reasonable values for Mail-Followup-To.

Now I'm subscribed to the list.

> That doesn't help the problem I've described, which is where the new version
> of the extension package has *not been installed*.

>
> The two remaining options are to completely rearrange the directories at the
> same time (heavy on the scripting, heavy on the risk of errors)

how would that be?

> or timing
> it to coincide with a PHP ABI change so that we can rely on Depends instead
> of Conflicts to keep things in sync (piece of cake, we already have the
> initial implementation ;), but leaves the timeline in upstream's hands).

Or bumping the php-api to something like phpapi-20060613+lfs1. Doing
it that way doesn't require a versioned conflict.
Of course it would be necessary that all the php extensions are
recompiled by adding the modifications to the postrm.

>
> --
> Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
> Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
> vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
>


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