[Pkg-monitoring-maintainers] Bug#829005: Bug#829005: ganglia-webfrontend: runtime dependency on php-xml

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 29.06.2016 [19:50:44 +0200], Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29/06/16 19:33, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > Package: ganglia-web
> > Version: 3.6.1-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> > 
> >   * ganglia-webfrontend: Add run-time dependency on php-xml as the code
> >     calls xml_parser_create(), etc (LP: #1577916).
> > 
> > Thanks for considering the patch.
> 
> Hi Nishanth,
> 
> Thanks for this contribution.
> 
> Is the patch only needed for Ubuntu or also for Debian stretch now?

Also for stretch (PHP7.0 only) afaict. Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian stretch
have basically the same dependency requirements.

> Would you like to help maintain the package in alioth, do you already
> have an account there?  We use Git to track all the packaging files.

I do, I can commit it there, if that would be preferred; I've been
hesitant to do so, just in case I break something :)