Package: php5 Version: 5.0.5-3 Severity: wishlist Hi.
I have been trying to backport your php5 package to sarge as well as enabling the mysqli extension (to make use of the extended features of my mysql5 installation, which are not available through the mysql extension). However, building the package has been a pain in the a**, when anything went wrong. Especially troublesome was the handling of the patches in debian/patches because your patch method doesn't keep track of which patches have already been applied and which haven't. Moving the patches to dpatch would handle that. Doing the move would be relatively easy to do: Prepend the following lines to each patch: ------------------ cut here --------------------- #! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run ## 65-sieveshell-enhancements.dpatch by Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ## ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. ## DP: No description. @DPATCH@ ------------------ cut here --------------------- Obviously, it would make sense to change the second line to something matching the relevant patch and to add a description in line 5, but that is no must. Then replace your previous patch handling (patch, patch-stamp and unpatch targets) by including the dpatch makefile snippet somewhere near the top of debian/rules like this: ------------------ cut here --------------------- # enable dpatch usage include /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make ------------------ cut here --------------------- Finally, create a 00list file in debian/patches which includes the filenames of all the patches you want to have applied. If you want that, I could also provide a patch against 5.0.5-3 which does just that. regards, Sven -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'experimental'), (90, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.12-incase Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
