Should Drop php-suhosin from Ubuntu

[Clint Byrum]

Upstream has disappeared, and has not agreed to support PHP 5.4. The latest changes from Debian conflict and/or break this package to avoid problems caused by incomplete 5.4 support. After contacting both the php5 and php-suhosin maintainers in Debian, it seems like this package should be removed from Ubuntu until such time as upstream fully supports PHP 5.4.

Currently php cannot migrate from raring-proposed -> raring because php5-suhosin is uninstallable now due to php5-common conflicting with it.

Also the package that is currently in the archive (since 12.04) is not even allowed into Debian testing because of the 4 RC bugs in it.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Removing packages from raring:
        php-suhosin 0.9.33-3build1 in raring
                php5-suhosin 0.9.33-3build1 in raring amd64
                php5-suhosin 0.9.33-3build1 in raring armhf
                php5-suhosin 0.9.33-3build1 in raring i386
                php5-suhosin 0.9.33-3build1 in raring powerpc
Comment: LP: #1086984 Doesn't support php 5.4, upstream dead, unbuildable.
Remove [y|N]? y
1 package successfully removed.

[Jan Wagner (waja)]

Am 05.12.2012 21:38, schrieb Clint Byrum:
> problems caused by incomplete 5.4 support. After contacting both the
> php5 and php-suhosin maintainers in Debian, it seems like this package

Did you? Anyways ... removing it from Ubuntu seems the only valid option
for now, as upstream stated (with my own words):

* don't use patches from anybody else except upstream
* only use released versions (no scm snapshots)
* he just created php-suhosin for himself and published the code, we
shouldn't expect anything

So it looks like there will be no solution to get php-suhosin working
with a recent PHP version soon nor will this software be maintainable
for longterm in a distribution (in the actual situation).

Just my 2 php-suhosin packager cents. Cheers, Jan.
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