question about php5-ps

[Ray]

On November 29, 2012 12:24:05 PM Clint Byrum wrote:
> 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.
> 
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Thank you for your help. 

Based on the description this is exactly my problem, although, having said 
that, I am curious why it worked under 11.04 Natty. I wrote some 'hobby' code 
using this extension in June 2011 on this same machine, and it worked then. 

It looks like I will eventually have to rewrite my code, but in the mean time, 
is there a process that will let me download the package source,   apply the 
patch locally, and then install the package. 

As to helping at PECL, I'm rather intimidated, but I will consider it.
Thanks again, 
Ray