[pkg-php-pear] php-log & php-db in Buster

[Robin Gustafsson]

Hi Joshua,

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:28 PM Joshua Smeda <joshua.smeda at xneelo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I’m contacting you since you’re the maintainers on 2 packages that I have a query on. Specifically, php-log and php-db (I know php-mdb2 supersedes php-db).
>
> Could you kindly please clarify, or point out why php-log & php-db was not included in Buster, but Bullseye?

It seems php-db was incompatible with the PHP version in Buster at the
time of its release. php-log was removed because it depended on
php-db. [1,2]

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/941769/php-db-removed-from-testing/
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1027109/php-log-removed-from-testing/

> Is there a possibility of considering a back-port to Buster for these packages? While we know we can source these packages from Pear, we prefer not too.

I doubt there'll be any official backports, especially now that
Bullseye is the new stable. However, you could probably backport the
version from Bullseye fairly easily for your own use.

Regards,
Robin