question about php5-ps

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Ray's message of 2012-11-29 11:33:13 -0800:
> Hello,
> I am trying to use the package php5-ps (version 1.3.6-7build1, amd64) with 
> php5.4 (php5.4.6-1ubuntu1.1, amd64) both from the quantal repositories. 
> (system is running kubuntu 12.10 amd64) Scripts using this functionality are 
> seg faulting and dumping core (even sample code written by the original 
> author). The source code contains incompatibilities with php 5.4 and I am 
> wondering if this is a symptom of being built on a system that wasn't using 
> php 5.4, or if there is another problem as well. 

The packages were rebuilt with the PHP 5.4 API:

php-ps (1.3.6-7build1) quantal; urgency=low

  * No-change rebuild for phpapi change
 -- Ilya Barygin <randomaction at ubuntu.com>   Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:03:13 +0400

(Thanks Ilya!)

So its not that. However, it may very likely be this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-ps/+bug/1024207

Which in turn mentions this bug:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58211

Both have patches for php-ps to make them 64-bit compatible. I'm not
sure we would want to carry said patches in Ubuntu without upstream
acknowledging them. Thats a problem, because from what I'm seeing,
php-ps is woefully unmaintained.

https://bugs.php.net/search.php?cmd=display&package_name[]=ps

So, you probably will want to re-evaluate whether or not its a good idea
to make use of that particular extension (or perhaps you can contribute
to its maintenance in the PECL project).

Meanwhile I've opened a grave bug against the Debian package, as it
should probably be removed from Debian and future Ubuntu releases if it
is in fact a dead upstream project.