[php-maint] Bug#610935: Bug#610935: Bug#610935: Bug#610935: [php5-intl] Conflicts with php5-idn 1.2b-6

[Ondřej Surý]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:20, Raphael Geissert <geissert at debian.org> wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2011 01:52:52 Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:14, Adrien Clerc <adrien at antipoul.fr> wrote:
>> > There are two workarounds. Either remove php5-intl, or comment the line
>> > in /etc/php5/conf.d/idn.ini that loads explicitely idn.so. I didn't
>> > manage to find the link between the two. But this is very annoying,
>> > since installing both package makes apache crash.
>
> php5-idn should be dropped from the archive. I don't know of any application
> that uses any of the functions from idn that are not provided by intl.
>
>> Thanks for the report, I'll Conflict php5-intl with php5-idn
>
> I never added the conflict because it is supposed to be handled by the
> extensions manager, and the latest policy explicitly adds a note that such
> kind of "soft" conflicts are not reason enough to add Conflicts.

So maybe Replaces/Conflicts/Provides would be better solution?

Ondrej
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