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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Debian PHP patches
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

Jani Taskinen wrote:
> On 01/17/2010 05:19 AM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Jani Taskinen wrote:
>>
>>> 16.1.2010 20:10, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>>> Some of the other patches include:
>>>> libdb_is_-ldb
>>>
>>> Why? Potentially breaks things when you assume db/ being correct place..
>>
>> Do you have an example of any actual case?
> 
> Do you have an example where it's actually needed?
> 
>> Can you tell me what exactly we are breaking? divert calls should only be
>> used internally by autoconf and the, apparently useless, usage of them in
>> php makes it fail to build with any other autoconf.
> 
> If you remove them, things break. I don't remember right now why, but it
> did, Rasmus tried this already and failed. Search the mailing lists for
> more. His commit message is a bit weird, I think it should say "2.6x is
> broken in so many ways" rather than 2.13:
> 
>   http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=291414

Not really.  It is only maintaining backward compatibility with 2.13
that is broken.  In HEAD where we can drop that version entirely, things
are fine.  Since we can't do that in 5.3, I gave up on the changes for
this branch.

-Rasmus