Comment 36 for bug 87063

What is really ridiculous is that you complain just about package NAME. Have you really checked contents of php5-sybase package?

/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/php5
/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs
/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/mssql.so
/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/pdo_dblib.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/etc
/etc/php5
/etc/php5/conf.d
/etc/php5/conf.d/mssql.ini
/etc/php5/conf.d/pdo_dblib.ini
/usr/share/doc/php5-sybase

Sybase extension was switched to mssql some time ago in Debian, since mssql had more feature and PDO driver. And Ubuntu pulled that change and has mssql in (at least) 8.04 and 8.10.

And yes I consider having two extensions with same set of functions and compiled with same underlying library as braindead.