This project is a fork of the original dh-make-php adapted to php7. It might not suit your needs, as it was mostly changed until it worked.

What is dh-make-[pear|pecl]?

If you know dh-make-perl you already know what dh-make-[pear|pecl] does. Both programs create debian source packages from either an extension from PECL or PEAR. PECL and PEAR are repositories of extensions of the PHP Hypertext Processor.

dh-make-pecl currently requires a C extension downloaded from PECL. There is currently no way to let dh-make-pecl download the extension by itself. The program creates a directory php-- containing all files for the debian source package and the extensions files itself. Usually it should be enough to create the debian binary package by running dpkg-buildpackage in the created directory.

Building the pecl extension requires a debhelper called dh_pecl which is also part of this distribution.

dh-make-pear does the same as dh-make-pecl for modules from PEAR.

This version of dh-make-php has several features disabled because they are either not mature enough or need more discussion before making it into a new version. As there are:

• the source packages ships a debhelper script dh_pecl. It should rather be part of the debhelper package. dh_pecl inserts appropriate code into postinst and prerm of the pecl package to register the new extension in the various php.ini files. The job of dh_pecl is currently done by supplying templates already containing the code.
• apache isn't restarted after modifying /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini. The regular php4 extension don't do that either.
• creating a changelog from the extension's package.xml file (this is currently supported by pear.mk, but not yet by pecl)

Author: Uwe Steinmann steinm@debian.org Contributions: Matthew Palmer mpalmer@debian.org (dh_pecl and helpers) Charles Fry debian@frogcircus.org (allow to use unmodified .orig.tar.gz, many valueable hints on how to improve dh-make-php) Matt Barry «muramas@cyberdiscordia.org> (patch to create php4 and php5 binary package from the same source.)