Re: missing file in php-net-ipv4 in official package
Hello,
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:04:27PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>
> It seems that the intention of the maintainer was to have the file
> /usr/share/php/.registry/net_ipv4.reg installed together with the
> package. I didn't know that this file was needed, and that it was the
> way that pear knows a given package is setup. But as long as we are
> supposed to use ONLY Debian package and not "pear install", I want to
> ask here if you think if that is really needed or not.
PEARLIBRARYNAME.reg is needed because it's with this .reg file that pear
understands that PEARLIBRARYNAME is installed. Even we use Debian
packages for pear modules, we should not break pear cli IMHO.
> All together, now that I did about 10 pear extension Debian packages or
> so, I am wondering if it was possible to create a script that would
> parse the "package.xml" file to auto generate the debian/rules file the
> correct way. An automated system would have many advantages. Some that
> come to my mind: make Debian packages very fast, reduce the possibility
> to make errors, make it possible to have updates very fast at the same
> time as the one from pear.php.net, ...
>
> Also, the package.xml has all the needed information: upstream author,
> license, and list of files and where to set them up. As it's an XML
> file, it's quite easy to parse.
>
> Of course, this doesn't mean that the resulting Debian folder shouldn't
> be check for consistency. This is the role of both the maintainer, and
> the sponsor.
>
> If anybody is interested about this idea and want to work with me doing
> it, let me know. One of the subjects that I'd like to discuss is what
> tool to use to parse the file. Maybe php itself as it can be called from
> shell?
Parsing and displaying informations are done with:
$ pear info package.xml
I don't think it's very useful to do more and generate
debian/control file because it could give bad habits for the
maintainer: debian/control must have ever manual checks.
Regards,
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