[pkg-php-pear] Automatic creation of Debian packages out of the PEAR modules

[Olivier Berger]

Hi.

Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> writes:

> While listening to the FLOSS weekly podcast, I heard about FreeBSD
> creating automatically packages for CPAN modules when these aren't
> available in the distribution.
>
> This gave me the idea to write such tool in Debian for PEAR packages.
>
> If a PEAR package isn't available, then the only option is to do:
> pear install $package
>
> What we could do would be something like:
> deb-pear-build --channel pear.phpunit.de --package <whatever>
>
> Then <whatever> would get downloaded in a build-area folder, and
> converted to a Debian package. Then eventually, with a -i option, it
> could be automatically installed. Options like --depends could help to
> write dependencies if they need to be tweaked manually (they often do...).
>
> I don't think this would be hard to write, considering the set of tools
> we already have (eg: pkg-php tools). Of course, this wouldn't replace
> packaging stuff in Debian manually, but it still would be better for our
> users to have PEAR packages installed in a Debian package format than
> having them installed with "pear install".
>
> Such tool really could be written out of few shell scripts.
>
> Any thoughts on this anyone?
> Any idea on a nice name for such tool?
>

May I suggest to add an option to file an RFP alongside for each such
package ?

Just my 2 cents,

Best regards,

P.S.: congrats for the good progress on phpunit.
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Olivier BERGER 
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