[php-maint] Alioth group membership / git access

[Thomas Goirand]

----- Original message -----
> 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.

You still don't get it I believe...

Adding a version there is useless because that is
not a Depends:, so apt wont care about it!

IMHO it is fine to put these as Depends, but please
check that versions are really needed, some might
not even be in Debian anymore. It would be useless
to add a version Depends if it is already the
minimum available in Lenny.

Thomas