Help with php4-common

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:39:02AM -0700, Ryan Thiessen wrote:
> I am trying to install the popular web application framework Horde on
> my Ubuntu server, but I am coming across some odd problems that seem
> difficult to overcome.  An integral component of the program, imp3,
> depends on php4-imap which depends on php4-common which is not
> available.  It seems that in Debian Sid php4 is packaged as
> "php4-common" with a metapackage "php4", while in Ubuntu the master
> package is just simply php4 and there is no php4-common package that I
> can find.  This makes any package that depends on php4-common to be
> uninstallable.
> 
> My question is, why was this configuration changed for Ubuntu,

php4-common wasn't created until version 4:4.3.8-6, which was a couple
of months after we had warty's upstream version freeze and so stopped
routinely syncing updates from Debian unstable.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]