[php-maint] Bug#710677: [php5] Call to undefined function json_decode()/json_encode()

[Mitch Halmu]

As a follow-up for package php5-json not found for architecture sparc,
I built from source:

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PHP         : /usr/bin/php
PHP_SAPI    : cli
PHP_VERSION : 5.5.0RC2
ZEND_VERSION: 2.5.0-dev
PHP_OS      : Linux - Linux debian-v240 3.8-1-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian
3.8.12-1 sparc64
INI actual  : /var/tmp/php-json/tmp-php.ini
More .INIs  :
CWD         : /var/tmp/php-json
Extra dirs  :
VALGRIND    : Not used
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TIME START 2013-06-09 02:45:40
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....

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TIME END 2013-06-09 02:45:45

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TEST RESULT SUMMARY
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Exts skipped    :    0
Exts tested     :   43
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Number of tests :   49                45
Tests skipped   :    4 (  8.2%) --------
Tests warned    :    0 (  0.0%) (  0.0%)
Tests failed    :    1 (  2.0%) (  2.2%)
Expected fail   :    4 (  8.2%) (  8.9%)
Tests passed    :   40 ( 81.6%) ( 88.9%)
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Time taken      :    5 seconds
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EXPECTED FAILED TEST SUMMARY
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json_last_error() tests [tests/007.phpt]  XFAIL REASON: Different parser,
so different error codes.
json_decode() with large integers [tests/008.phpt]  XFAIL REASON: Large
number always treat as integer.
Bug #42090 (json_decode causes segmentation fault) [tests/bug42090.phpt]
XFAIL REASON: New parser is less strict, produce different result, but
don't crash.
JSON (http://www.crockford.com/JSON/JSON_checker/test/fail*.json)
[tests/fail001.phpt]  XFAIL REASON: New parser is less strict, produce
different result, but don't crash.
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FAILED TEST SUMMARY
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JSON (http://www.crockford.com/JSON/JSON_checker/test/pass1.json)
[tests/pass001.1.phpt]
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You may have found a problem in PHP.

....


Installing and using extension=json.so in php.ini works for CLI and
apache2. Nevertheless, having a sparc package in the repo like it is
available for other platforms would be nice.

Cheers,

Mitch Halmu