Bug#736494: About #736494

["Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org>]

Hi Adam,

On Sun, April 13, 2014 14:39, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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. :(

I fully understand the lack of manpower. But also, obviously the update
fixes significant bugs and has seen lots of real world testing, probably
more than many of the other packages proposed for a stable update.

Is there a model or approach you can suggest that would work for the SRMs?

Cheers,
Thijs