Bug#662936: Add check for /usr/lib/php5/<version>/<component>.so and missing phpapi-<version>

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

tags 662936 + pending
thanks

On 2012-03-07 12:54, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.5~bpo60+1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 

Hey,

> this is a simple suggestion to add a lintian check for packages which contain
> binary plugin for PHP located under /usr/lib/php5/<apiversion>/<component>.so
> 
> Such packages should Depend on phpapi-<apiversion> which is provided by PHP
> packages.
> 

I think that would be "missing-dependency-on-phpapi".  It is triggered
on ELF ("real") files installed as:

  ^usr/lib/php\d/.*\.so$



> Example of such failure was found in owfs as part of transition from PHP 5.3
> to PHP 5.4: http://bugs.debian.org/662634
> 

Lintian did not notice this becase owfs installed the binary with a
trailing SOVERSION (i.e. libowphp.so.0.0.0 rather than libowphp.so).
For now, I have extended the check to catch binaries with trailing
SOVERSION.

> Lintian text should probably recommend something like this:
> 
> Please add something like:
> 	echo "php:Depends=phpapi-`php-config5 --phpapi`" >> debian/<package>.substvars
> to debian/rules and add
> 	Depends: ${php:Depends}
> to debian/control in the <package> section.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ondrej
> 
> -- System Information:
> [...]

~Niels