[php-maint] Bug#627937: Bug#627937: php-pear should depend on php5-dev

Clint Byrum clint at ubuntu.com
Thu May 26 19:02:12 UTC 2011


Excerpts from Ondřej Surý's message of Thu May 26 08:57:57 -0700 2011:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 19:23, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Package: php5
> > Version: 5.3.5-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Usertags: origin-ubuntu oneiric ubuntu-patch
> >
> >
> > Forwarded from Ubuntu:
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/bugs/634359
> >
> > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> >
> > Binary package hint: php-pear
> >
> > Quoting from the bug report:
> >> Most of PECL packages require /usr/bin/phpize and some other php5-dev
> >> files to get installed/compiled (i.e. pecl/fribidi), but php5-dev is
> >> not always installed.
> 
> Are there any PECL packages which don't require php5-dev?  The most
> elegant solution would be to move /usr/bin/pecl to php5-dev and maybe
> add some note about missing php5-dev when installing PECL package via
> pear install.
> 
> Or what about adding those two prints to PEAR/Builder.php:
> 
>         $err = $this->_runCommand($this->config->get('php_prefix')
>                                 . "phpize" .
>                                 $this->config->get('php_suffix'),
>                                 array(&$this, 'phpizeCallback'));
>         if (PEAR::isError($err)) {
>             return $err;
>         }
> 
>         if (!$err) {
>             print "If the command failed with 'phpize: not found' then
> you need to install php5-dev package";
>             print "You can do it by running 'apt-get install php5-dev'
> as a root user";
>             return $this->raiseError("`phpize' failed");
>         }
> 
> This seems less intrusive then installing php5-dev for all php-pear users.
> 
> What do you think?
> 

Interesting idea. I do like the idea of allowing sysadmins to  keep the
number of -dev packages to a minimum on production systems. The reason
pecl is being considered as a runtime command and not -dev I think is
because its for installing stuff that isn't available as a .deb, so
its most likely use case is on a runtime host, but one that probably
doesn't mind keeping php5-dev installed, or that will install it just
to get the .so and then can remove it without removing all of PEAR.

I like it, and I'd drop the Ubuntu change upon the one you specify above
being made in Debian.

One thing, how about after these changes, php-pear adds a
Recommends: php5-dev, so that the casual user will still obtain the
functionality. This would also help Ubuntu users who already have the
Depends: line not be surprised when they install php-pear and expect
pecl to work.





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