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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] embedded libmagic (from file)
From: seanius@seanius.net (sean finney)

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:06:28PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> It's easy to understand the wish of hacking libmagic to provide some more 
> features, but it would be great to keep the divergence to the strict 
> minimum.

And ideally we could find some kind of technical solution/compromise that
would keep all parties satisfied.  I know this is a touchy subject, but
embedded code copies are a pretty big issue for us and not allowing them
plays a part in what keeps the QA in Debian so well respected.

I haven't looked very closely at this particular problem, but as a
last resort (assuming we can't find something one-size-fits-all), we can
always add support in the debian source package, so that users who want any
missing functionality can easily get it by recompiling with some arbitrary
option (like what we're already doing with PHP5_COMPAT for keeping ABI
compatibility).


	sean