Hello all, In working on an update for php-pecl-http I discovered that (all? nearly all?) PHP extensions fail to build in jessie because of a bug in php5. Specifically, the bug is #805222.
It appears that jessie was originally released with PHP 5.6.7 and the bug in question became known when PHP 5.6.16 was in unstable. A fix was made to php5 and the separate php-pear package in unstable, but fixes were never made to jessie while it was stable or oldstable. It seems that this update of php-pecl-http is the first PECL extension security update in jessie, which is why this problem has not previously appeared. Though, the last comment on #805222 indicates that at least one user attempted to rebuild a PECL extension in jessie/stable and encountered the failure. No action was taken on his follow-up to the bug. I have added php5 to dla-needed.txt and, unless there are objections, it is my intention to begin working on an update that addresses this bug in jessie. I would then test it in an environment where I could attempt to build php-pecl-http to 1) verify that php5 is actually fixed with regard to #805222, and 2) that php-pecl-http can be made to build from source. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
