[pkg-php-pear] Bug#806903: src:symfony: Please provide directions on developing with Symfony using Debian packages

[Daniel Beyer]

Dear Oliver,

On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 18:38 +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Given that Symfony is packaged for Debian, I'd expect to find some way
> to get a Symfony development environment based on Debian packages,
> without having to download the whole internet with composer.
> 

At the moment we have no solution for "downloading the whole internet"
to get a Symfony development environment running. If you'Re developing
Symfony applications, you're kind of forced to use composer. Once in
future Debian might provide a solution to use Debian packages together
with composer, but this is not the case right now.

> Could you please provide some directions on how the packages of
> Symfony can be used for Symfony app development ?
> 

The next upload to Debian/sid will provide a README.Debian within all
the binary package built from src:symfony, explaining how to use them
within custom applications [1].

> I cannot even seem to find any "top-level" package that'd be a
> candidate for giving me a README.Debian, to get me started.
> 

Right now we don't intend to provide a common php-symfony package
depending on all the single Component/Bridge/Bundle packages built from
src:symfony. We simply saw no use case for this, especially since the
package php-symfony-framework-bundle kind of does this already. But we
might reconsider this in future.

Greetings
Daniel

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-php/symfony.git/tree/debian/README.Debian
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