[php-maint] lenny backports request: php-net-smtp and php5-intl

[Thomas Goirand]

On 07/05/2011 04:32 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2011 03:21:45 martin f krafft wrote:
>> Dear PHP maintainers,
>>
>> would one of you please be able to backport php-net-smtp and
>> php5-intl to lenny? The two are needed by the latest versions of the
>> Roundcube Webmail client and it would be good not to have to migrate
>> to squeeze just yet to get the newer webmail programme.
> 
> Not sure if there was a followup on this request somewhere else, but the 
> team's general policy is not to backport anything.
> 
> Now, if you really want to, php-net-smtp should be trivial (perhaps it is just 
> a matter of adding a changelog entry) and the intl extension can be packaged 
> from the source at pecl.php.net/package/intl. The version in squeeze and 
> greater come from php5 itself.
> Most pecl extensions are fairly easy to package, you could use dh-make-pecl, 
> or a cdbs-based rule like the one I use on php-tokyo-tyrant and others.
> 
> Cheers,

I wrote the backport, uploaded, then it was rejected for a reason that I
don't understand. The package is in my Git though, so feel free to try
again by yourself.

Thomas