[php-maint] etch->lenny upgrade changes (breaks) php fileinfo behavior

[Andrew Mitchell]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:32:48PM +0200, sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:09:18AM +0100, Mike Ashton wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:16:42AM +0200, Guillaume Delacour wrote:
> > > 
> > > For information, fileinfo is unmaintained and not packaged in Debian
> > > because it will be included in php 5.3
> > 
> > Is that a bit "catch 22"? We haven't included fileinfo with our 5.2
> > release because it's now not maintained seperately because it's so
> > important that it's now core functionality in 5.3 which we're not yet
> > using.
> 
> there's a surplus of demand and a shortage of manpower when it comes to
> maintaining the php family of stuff, unfortunately.  you're more than
> welcome to join up and help out with something you think is missing or
> should be fixed, if you like :)
> 

Sounds like a plan. I've been recently touching the php5 packages in Ubuntu, 
mostly merging in the changes you've uploaded to sid. At the moment there's 
only 1 patch that should go into the BTS, which is adding sybase aliases to 
the mysql extension.
I'd like to help out with the packages in Debian, if you have a TODO list 
or some areas I can lend a hand

Thanks,
Andrew 

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