[php-maint] Status of php-idn (removal suggestion)

[Micha Lenk]

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Hi PHP maintainers,

This message is intended to share what I have found out about the
recently orphaned package php-idn, a PHP api for the IDNA library
(a package I'm using frequently):

Apparently upstream of php-idn (http://php-idn.bayour.com/) is dead:
Last release was in November 2006. An alternative provider of the
functions idn_to_ascii() and idn_to_utf8() appears to be supplied by the
PHP extension intl in the (official?) PECL repository:
http://php.net/manual/en/ref.intl.idn.php

I suggest the removal of the package php-idn once PHP 5.3 and a package
for the intl extension is available. For convenience, a transitional
package php5-idn depending on the suggested intl extension package might
be needed.

Regards
  Micha
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