[php-maint] Bug#696470: php5-suhosin: php5-common make php5-suhosin defective

[Ondřej Surý]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Jan Wagner <waja at cyconet.org> wrote:

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> Hi there,
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> Am 21.12.2012 11:27, schrieb Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS):
> > On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 10:00 +0100, stefano wrote:
> >> the package conflicts with php5-common 5.4.4-11 (the last of sid)
> >>  but in aptitude the phpapi-20100525 (requests by php-suhosin)
> >> seems provided by php5-cgi 5.4.4-11 (for example).
> >
> > It is known and intentional. As php5-suhosin doesn't work with the
> > current release of PHP5. Actually it never had a stable release
> > that was worked with PHP 5.4, but upstream was working on it. Now
> > s/he is missing for seven months. :(
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> as this Break is unversioned, how is the plan to get a (maybe in the
> future) compatible php5-suhosin installed beside php5-common?
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There's no plan since there's no suhosin.


> Even if this problen can be solved for jessie and sid, what whould be
> the best way to provide a php5-suhosin package for wheezy (for example
> maybe via backports)?
>

You won't be able to use backports due PHP 5.5 in sid.

If there's a new stable suhosin, we can always release new php 5.4 via pu,
but I think that it's not worth the trouble for wheezy.

Users can always use unpackaged extension with php5-dev.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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