php5-common conflicts and provides php5-json

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:45:27 +0200
Jess Portnoy <jess at zend.com> wrote:

> Package: php5-common
> Version: 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
> Severity: normal
> 
> php5-common includes the JSON PHP extension. From the description of
> the pacakage ("Common files for packages built from the php5
> source..") and the Debian convention it is not apparent why this
> should be a dependency, also, why should it conflict any other
> packages providing php5-json.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers intrepid-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'),
> (500, 'intrepid-backports'), (500, 'intrepid') Architecture: amd64
> (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages php5-common depends on:
> ii  libc6              2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7 GNU C Library: Shared
> libraries ii  sed                4.1.5-8               The GNU sed
> stream editor
> 
> php5-common recommends no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

Can you file this on launchpad? I know the system sent it to the users
mailing list, but it never gets worked if it stays here. 

The right place to file bug reports is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

That will give the developers a chance to see if they can fix it.

Thanks.

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