[php-maint] Bug#494754: Bug#494754: php5-dev: Compiling pecl/phar fails because of missing include/ext/spl/ directory

[Soenke - Jimdo]

Hi,

Ondřej Surý wrote:
>>> Etch's php will not have this fixed and lenny version is already ok.
>> May I ask a dumb question: Why can't it be fixed? Because of stable
>> policy or because of other (technical) reasons?
> 
> Well, both.  First - we do nothing special to list files to include
> in php5-dev, we just include whole usr/include - that means that
> those files were not available in upstream php 5.2.0.
> Second - yes, because of stable policy.

Ok, thanks for explanation.

I filed a PECL bug: http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=14495

You can close this bug report. Sorry for wasting your time. :)

-soenke