[php-maint] Bug#142178: Bug#142178: php4: short_open_tag should default to off

[Sean DuBois]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:42:51PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> now it would be a good time to do the archive check and maybe filling
> a wishlist bug (or even writing that check yourself) against lintian
> to check the short open tags.
Awesome! I will look into writing the check for Lintian, it will be a
good learning experience.

Than any packages that get hit I will then triage. 

> 
> I will be disabling short_open_tag in next upload of PHP 5.5
> 
> O.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org> wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sean Dubois <seander13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hey Ondřej do you want me to try and take this one?
> >
> > just leave it post-wheezy.  We cannot make this change now due freeze,
> > and we will have plenty of time to solve this in jessie.
> >
> >> What would be the easiest way to check what PHP programs are employing
> >> short tags? I would end up installing each one and using grep (Or
> >> something stronger in Python if needed) to scan the installed files
> >> and look for short tags. I will just make up a CSV of what programs do
> >> or do not use short tags.
> >
> > Yeah, something like that. I suggest using wiki to track the checks,
> > something like: http://wiki.debian.org/PHP/54Transition
> >
> > There's also a git repository with bunch of tools I have used to track
> > PHP 5.4 transition located at
> > anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php-maint-tools.git
> >
> > Do you have alioth account, if so please add yourself to the pkg-php
> > group, if not, please create one, and add yourself, so you can have
> > write access to git repos.
> >
> >> I have done a decent amount of PHP programming and I have never seen a
> >> program use ASP like tags.
> >
> > Me neither, but it's the baggage we have to drag for now (in wheezy
> > freeze time).
> >
> > O.
> > --
> > Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
>