> On 17 Nov 2019, at 22:39, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > - for PHP, there apparently used be a draft policy but it's gone with Alioth > now. > The remnants I could find [5] don't mention package dependencies. Looking at > the > archive, I see pretty much uniform dependencies on php-common, apparently for > enabling the module in the maintainer scripts. These dependencies do not > pull in the actual PHP interpreter.
The php-common dependency is for C modules (PECL) and is mostly generated by dh-php. There was a circular dependency before that I managed to unbreak. It’s little bit weird, but it works. The PEAR and code in PHP should generally depend on: - php - if it’s a web app - php-cli - if it’s a console app The „php-cli“ gets usually pulled with „php“ (whatever satisfies the meta package dependency). But I never packaged PHP applications myself, I just made sure the transitions between PHP versions are mostly smooth in Debian (packaging stuff, not language itself…). - There’s an obscure embedded PHP, but people using it know how to depend on it Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý ond...@sury.org
