Launchpad entry: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/php5-universe
Created: 2007-06-08 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
Ubuntu changelog states separate php-{imap,interbase,mcrypt} are present into archives:
- 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)but a quick look at http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/removals.txt shows that:
========================================================================= ========================================================================= [Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:47:44 +0000] [ftpmaster: Launchpad Archive Manager] Removed the following packages from feisty: php-interbase | 5.1.2-1 | source php4-interbase | 4:5.1.2-1 | amd64, i386 php5-interbase | 5.1.2-1 | amd64, i386 ------------------- Reason ------------------- (From Debian) [auto-cruft] obsolete source package ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= ========================================================================= [Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:17:49 +0100] [ftpmaster: Launchpad Archive Manager] Removed the following packages from gutsy: php-imap | 5.1.2-1ubuntu1 | source php5-imap | 5.1.2-1 | hppa php5-imap | 5.1.2-1ubuntu1 | amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc ------------------- Reason ------------------- (From Debian) [auto-cruft] obsolete source package ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= ========================================================================= [Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:18:00 +0100] [ftpmaster: Launchpad Archive Manager] Removed the following packages from gutsy: php-mcrypt | 5.1.2-1ubuntu1 | source php5-mcrypt | 5.1.2-1 | hppa php5-mcrypt | 5.1.2-1ubuntu1 | amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, sparc ------------------- Reason ------------------- (From Debian) [auto-cruft] obsolete source package ---------------------------------------------- ========================================================================= =========================================================================
As you can see, these packages never reached Gutsy.
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 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 packages in Gutsy and keep them up-to-date with php5 source package in order to avoid versioning conflicts and compatibility issues.
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
We have ready for test and revision, the first version of php5-universe sources: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=5701
To keep php5-universe up-to-date, we could create a new Launchpad team whose members have upload rights to a bzr branch which contains the files needed. When a new version of php5 is released, we can merge it with our branch, purge unneeded files and release a updated package. This should be done in a few days after a php5 release.