[php-maint] Packaging php-pear from PEAR

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sun Sep 30 07:29:41 UTC 2007


On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> As the PEAR module grows and includes more dependencies over time the
> problem of tracking authors and licenses for the various packages sucked
> into the php5 build will only grow.

This doesn't ring true to me.  If the PEAR module is growing this many more
dependencies, then the upstream maintainers are doing a crappy job.

But historically, the number of modules bundled with php has decreased over
time rather than increasing.

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