[php-maint] Alioth group membership / git access

[John Morrissey]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:01:32PM -0500, John Morrissey wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:17:51PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > About php-services-weather, there's still some comments I would like to
> > make. I see these dependencies:
> > 
> > Recommends: php-cache (>= 1.5.3), php-db (>= 1.4.0), php-net-ftp (>=
> > 1.3.1), php-soap (>= 0.7.5), php-xml-serializer (>= 0.8)
> > 
> > Just checking: are you SURE that you need to have all these version
> > checks? How come if it's only in Recommends? It doesn't seem right to
> > me, as one could install another version (as this isn't a strong
> > Depends:).
> 
> Those are modules that some (not all) of the weather backends depend on.
> 
> For example, the metar backend can optionally fetch data via FTP. The
> versions are from the package.xml; I figure the PEAR metadata requires
> those minimum versions because the backends using those modules depend on
> features etc. present in those versions and newer.

I should add that I considered Suggests: for these, but it seems Suggests:
is even weaker. It's a difficult decision, since some backends want certain
PEAR module dependencies, but we can't be sure which weather backends the
user cares about.

john
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