[Bug 1242726] Re: php5-common is missing dependency on php5-json

[Robie Basak]

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I was unaware of the licensing problem and swap-out of PHP's json module
when I merged PHP last during Saucy development. I had assumed that it
would be treated by PHP developers as an add-on without the expectation
that it would be available by default. I now understand that this may
not be the case, and that PHP developers expect a json module to be
available by default.

Since php5-json is a separate package, it has ended up in universe in
Ubuntu. So we cannot simply depend on it or recommend it from
php5-common since php5-common is in main.

As a workaround, users can still install php5-json from universe, though
being in universe it is community supported only (eg. for security
updates).

I suppose that we need to pull php5-json (source: php-json) into main,
or if we cannot then we must conclude that we're going to require users
and developers to explicitly install php5-json from universe if they
want it.

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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  php5-common is missing dependency on php5-json

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