On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:41:47PM +1000, Jonathan Oxer wrote: > Sorry 'bout the slow response, just going through back-mail... > > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 06:38, Ian Eure wrote: > > > I started to think about making the huge number of php pear modules > > > available for debian. After looking at one which I will need myself > > > real soon, it appears not to be very difficult. > ... > > I don't believe that there are any individual PEAR packages in Debian, aside > > from php4-pear. > > php4-apd > > I was also thinking about packaging phpdocumentor because it's required > for an internal Deb package at my work, but didn't bother following it > up because all you have to do is put 'pear install foo' in the postinst > of anything that depends on it and you're done. No need for a Debian > package at all. 'pear install foo' will install the pear extension but debian package management will not know of the new files. I personaly don't like to spill files over my debian distribution not being covered by any package. > In fact, a Debian package of any PEAR module could be as simple as a > near-empty package with a 1-line postinst as above. > > If there are other reasons for packaging PEAR stuff natively I'd be very > interested to hear it - I'd be happy to package phpdocumentor and other > PEAR stuff after all if there's a good reason to do it. Before you start, you should have a look at my dh-make-php package which does most of the work to build source packages from pear/pecl extensions. It's not yet released because I am waiting for a debian helper dh-pecl being added to debhelper. Uwe -- MMK GmbH, Universitaetsstr. 11, 58097 Hagen Uwe.Steinmann@mmk-hagen.de Tel: +2331 840446 Fax: +2331 843920
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