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Re: PHP Policy Draft: API version



Le Mar 25 Avril 2006 04:34, Olly Betts a écrit :
> On 2006-04-11, Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> wrote:
> > php-json-ext that I maintain, should respect the best practices.
> > but I *may* be wrong, and will be happy to fix it the right way.
>
> I have one question - why do you set:
>
> Depends: phpapi-XXXXXXXX, phpN-common
>
> Where XXXXXXXX is the api version and N is the PHP major version
> (i.e. 4 or 5).  It doesn't appear that you directly need phpN-common,
> and anything which provides phpapi-XXXXXXXX should depend on it if it
> needs it, shouldn't it?
>
> I'm not saying you're wrong (especially since the majority of PHP
> modules seem to set their dependencies like this), just wondering why
> it is done this way.
>
> The PHP Policy Draft doesn't seem to cover this at all, but I think
> it should...

because it's a binary module, and yes policy should mention that for php 
binary modules if not already stated.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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