During a recent package review a notice this (very old) singularity
pci (from php-pear-PHP-CompatInfo) could reports the need for the xml extension (often because of utf8_encode / utf8_decode functions)
XML is a buildtin extension, so provided by php-common
$ php -n -m | grep -i xml libxml SimpleXML xml
The php-xml sub-package provides some additional XML related extensions dom wddx xmlreader xmlwriter xsl
So, a lot of package (web apps) are probably requiring php-xml when it is not really needed.
Just a notice, I don't think we have to fix this.
Remi.
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