Installing Smarty tries to uninstall PHP5

[Daniel Callejas Sevilla]

2005/12/25, Sasha Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com>:
> Most likely the package was simply compiled to depend on php4 even
> though it can depend on php5. This si normal. If the maintainer only had
> php4 on his computer, then it would compile qutomatically like this.
>

Thanks for your explanation. Should I anyhow notify the maintainer about this?