[pkg-php-pear] Bug#1093501: Bug#1093501: php-text-password: Useless in Debian

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi David,

On 2025-01-19 12:16, David Prévot wrote:
> This package hasn’t seen any upstream activity for a few years, and has
> no dependencies (besides php-text-captcha, but the same can probably be
> said about it) in Debian. Given how PHP has changed in the mean time, I
> doubt it’s even still working. Let’s not release Trixie with a useless
> and abandoned package (unless someone disagrees before the freeze), and
> let’s get it removed from Debian soon too.

Seeing "Useless in Debian" bugs being filed I thought that such PHP 
modules were either absorbed in PHP core, or found to be incompatible 
with Debian (such as Windows or OSX-specific modules). However, 
php-text-password has a reverse dependency and popcon of >100. Thus I 
would disagree it is useless.

Moreover, it would be nice to have some evidence for claim that this 
package is not working anymore. The package builds successfully and it 
worked last time I checked (although I use its reverse dependency 
php-text-captcha).

I use this package in my $DAYJOB, thus I would prefer to keep it in 
Debian, unless there are strong reasons against it. I agree that there 
is no upstream activity for a few years, but this is a rather simple 
package and it still builds and works (with patches).

Best wishes,
Andrius