Comment 14 for bug 191251

Paul, please refrain from personal attacks next time.

> If you all hate PHP, I do not understand why you are the PHP maintainers.

This comes naturally when you start to take care of php5 :-).

> The debian PHP maintainers are refusing the package this for a
> religious reason: that they abhor PHP and believe it should not
> spread.

Not true. I believe it should not spread outside it's niche - serving web pages. I am free to do so, since I can decide what I want to support. Packaging is not just simple process of throwing some scripts in debian/ directory, it also means you have to take care of bugreports and that you actually care about quality of the final distribution.

I don't want to argue about quality of php, it's out of topic in this bug, I am sure you can find all references to inconsistent APIs, incompatible changes between releases, bad design decisions, inconsistent function behaviour, etc.

> Considering that you are refusing to package part of PHP because you
> dislike PHP, I think resignation would be a good idea.

Well, feel free to do a QA (I mean real bug testing, not just pushing features you want because you wrote phc) with the massive amount of bugs at http://bugs.debian.org/src:php5
We are constantly in lack of manpower.