hi, On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 01:51 +0100, Aurélien Le Provost - Ribaltchenko wrote: > > i'm curious how you found yourself in this position. currently in > > etch there is a php4-pear package which depends on php-pear plus > > all of the modules that used to be contained by php4-pear (php-db, > > etc). btw, php-log was never part of php4-pear, and was a seperate > > package (php4-pear-log). > > Yep but the sarge to etch upgrade I decided to upgrade from php4 to > php5. Despite the php-pear replaces "php4-pear (<< 4:4.4.0-0)", it > only depends of "php5-cli | php4-cli, php5-common", not php-db, > php-log etc. These packages should at least belong to the package > recommendx.
i think it's a valid request to add them to recommends, so i'll do that before closing this bug. but still, those packages should have been installed as part of your dist-upgrade, unless: > > did you remove the php4-pear package before upgrading? > > Yes : as I said I decided to switch to php5, so for me it's mean purge > all php4 package since I will not use them anymore. Also, when I do > dist-upgrade and that I see a package or many which will be removed, > I stop and purge it. that's why the packages aren't installed. in etch/sid, php4-pear is the transitional "compatibility" package responsible for ensuring that php-db etc are installed. see: http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/php4-pear which also hints at the reasons for the package split. i'm pretty sure that the dist-upgrade wasn't going to remove php4-pear, and that it was some over-zealous purging on your part :) for future reference, i think that upgrading/dist-upgrading first, switching to php5 second, and purging third instead of all three at once will help you avoid such potential problems in the future (if you purged php4* after the upgrade instead of before, you'd have installed all the php-pear packages). > > you should probably file a seperate bug report against this to the > > php-log package, which is maintained by someone outside the debian > > php maintainers group > > Okay, I will make it in the days coming. thanks. also, any packages which depend only on php-pear but not the specific packages (maybe the package that led you to all of this) should have their dependencies updated too. sean
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