Wrong package dependency for some php7.0 packages

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Wrong package dependency for some php7.0 packages #150

Closed MarcinOrlowski closed 8 years ago

MarcinOrlowski commented 8 years ago

Hi,

I found that when I try to install PHP7 from packages named with php7.0-* I still will end up having php-common installed, despite php7.0-common being there as well. I find this a bit odd as to my understanding the whole point of having packages named php7.0-* is to avoid package collisions but this issue perfectly kills the whole purpose?

gplessis commented 8 years ago

The idea behind this is to have multiple PHP versions installed on a machine :

php-* package would contain everything common to all the versions or would be meta-packages with dependencies on the multiple corresponding phpx.y-* packages.
phpx.y-* packages would be specific to only one PHP version.

It's already the case in Stretch/Sid, but because I didn't want to maintain the PHP 5.6 branch for Jessie, it looks confusing, I can admit that. It will make sense once PHP 7.1 is out :)