On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 12:49:08 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, April 7, 2014 11:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Please remove the Depends: php5-json from php itself. > > PHP should not depend on any of its extensions; people > > can rather do that themselves. (Actually, this is an > > issue in every version that had this Depends.) > > The dependency exists for transitional reasons: the functionality in the > extension used to be in core, so the dependency guarantees that upgrades > will not regress in functionality and applications will suddenly break. It > can be weakened after one release cycle. > Wouldn't it work with just a Recommends?
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