[Pkg-php-pecl] Clarification on updated packages with updated binary packages

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 15.03.2016 [08:32:50 -0700], Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> On 04.03.2016 [18:33:12 +0100], Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > New php-pear package depend on php-xml, so you are safe here. Not sure
> > about mbstring though.
> 
> Thanks, Ondřej!
> 
> > There might be something in package.xml that could be automatically
> > parsed.
> 
> I wonder about something else related to this. php-sabre-http's
> composer.json says:
> 
>         "ext-mbstring" : "*",
> 
> Since that's now not builtin to the PHP core, does dh_phpcomposer need
> an update to translate that to php-mbstring?
> 
> Otherwise, at least php-sabre-http needs something like the following.

Ah, nevermind, as soon as I sent that, I recalled that build-depends
can't use the substitution. So we will need to patch these in. I'll
submit debdiffs.

-Nish

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