Bug#736494: About #736494

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 13:58 +0200, William Dauchy wrote:
> Is there someone available to validate this package? Lots of present
> fixes are more than needed to have an usable version of php in
> production.

Such comments really aren't that helpful. It's entirely possible "to
have an usable version of php in production" using the current package
in wheezy, or it wouldn't have made it in to wheezy in the first place
and no-one would have been using it on stable systems for the past year.
(That's not to say that some people aren't adversely affected by issues
in the current package, but that's far from your claim that it's
generally unusable.)

I realise you've put a lot of effort in to the patch, and that's
obviously appreciated, but a diff for stable of the size

 46 files changed, 4303 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-)

where most of the diff appears to be actual changes (as opposed to
translations, or autogenerated files) is non-trivial to review,
particularly when people are already short on time. :(

Regards,

Adam