please let me know if my emailing about this stuff is getting on your nerves :-).
the php rebuild is missing some subpackages:
php-mhash php-mssql php-readline php-tidy php-mcrypt
and some of the pear and pecl pacakges seem to not be updated either, but i haven't looked at that closely yet.
and the mysql in testing isn't the same as upstream. is that something that is going to be addressed?