php5universe
Launchpad entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/php5-universe
Created: Date(2007-06-08T16:39:18Z) by LucaFalavigna
Contributors: LucaFalavigna, CarlosBriosso
Packages affected: php5
Summary
Debian provides a source package called php5 which includes, among others, three binary packages: php5-imap, php5-interbase and php5-mcrypt. They are non provided in Ubuntu's php5 since they build-depend on packages which lie in Universe component (libc-client-dev, firebird2-dev and libmcrypt-dev respectively), while php5 lies in Main component.
Rationale
There are several packages which depend on those packages and can not be installed. Here they are:
- Unmetdeps for php5-imap
- phpgroupware
- egroupware-felamimail
- twig
- gosa
- imp4
- Unmetdeps for php5-interbase
- ibwebadmin
- Unmetdeps for php5-mcrypt
- phpmyadmin
See also part of Ubuntu changelog:
- debian/control, debian/rules: Disable a few build dependencies and
accompanying binary packages which we do not want to support in main:
+ firebird2-dev/php5-interbase (we have a separate php-interbase source)
+ libc-client-dev/php5-imap (we have a separate php-imap source)
+ libmcrypt-dev/php5-mcrypt (separate php-mcrypt source)
Use cases
Martin is an Ubuntu user which does use phpmyadmin to manage his databases on an AMD64 platform. He is unable to use it without php5-mcrypt due to [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phpmyadmin/+bug/114044 bug #114044].
- Andrew is an Ubuntu user. He uses phpgroupware to manage his activities and he is unable to run it anymore.
Scope
This specification is meant to provide php5-imap, php5-interbase and php5-mcrypt in Gutsy.
Design
We should provide those packages using a single source package (named php5-universe, for instance) which groups these three binary packages. This way it is sufficient to upload only a source package when there is need to instead of having multiple uploads.
In order to keep it synced as much as possible with upstream source package, we should define a strategy which can easily merge changes in.
Implementation