[php-maint] Bug#507765: php-pear: pear remote-list only shows a couple of packages

[Christian Hammers]

Package: php-pear
Version: 5.2.6-5
Severity: normal

Hello

Any idea why a purged and then freshly installed php-pear only
shows a couple of PEAR packages?

    # pear remote-list
    Channel pear.php.net Available packages:
    ========================================
    Package             Version
    Benchmark           1.2.7
    Cache               1.5.5
    Cache_Lite          1.7.4
    Config              1.10.11
    Gtk_VarDump         1.0.0
    Gtk_ScrollingLabel  1.0.0
    Gtk_FileDrop        1.0.2
    Gtk_Styled          1.0.0
    Log                 1.11.3
    Payment_PayPal_SOAP -n/a-
    Payment_Clieop      0.1.1
    Payment_Process     -n/a-
    Payment_DTA         1.2.1
    FSM                 1.3.0
    QA_Peardoc_Coverage 1.1.1
    Science_Chemistry   1.1.0
    Services_Akismet    -n/a-
    Stream_SHM          1.0.0
    Stream_Var          1.0.0
    VersionControl_SVN  -n/a-

Using ngrep I can see that pear downloaded a file list containing
many more packages like e.g. XML_SVG.

  ##
  T 216.92.131.66:80 -> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:44627 [A]
  t.package    http://pear.php.net/dtd/rest.package.xsd">. <n>XML_SVG</n>. <c
  ...

bye,

-christian-

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages php-pear depends on:
ii  php5-cli                      5.2.6-5    command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-common                   5.2.6-5    Common files for packages built fr

Versions of packages php-pear recommends:
ii  gnupg                         1.4.9-3    GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

Versions of packages php-pear suggests:
ii  php5-dev                      5.2.6-5    Files for PHP5 module development

-- no debconf information