[pkg-horde] Bug#827483: Bug#827483: php-horde-mapi: fix autopkgtest errors

[Nish Aravamudan]

On 21.06.2016 [04:04:59 +0200], Mathieu Parent wrote:
> 2016-06-21 3:36 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com>:
> > 2016-06-20 23:33 GMT+02:00 Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan at canonical.com>:
> > [...]
> >> Another question I had about this, since I was thinking about it. The
> >> current pkg-php-tools-overrides file for php-horde-mapi has:
> >>
> >> pear.php.net Math_BigInteger none
> >>
> >> Would it make sense to have php-seclib/php-phpseclib (appropriately
> >> versioned) provide this in the overrides file? Then the control file
> >> wouldn't need a manual modification, AIUI. Just trying to understand if
> >> that is the more maintainable approach.
> >
> > It is not possible to specify version in the override file, and seclib
> > (>= 2) is not available thru PEAR.
> >
> > So, no.
> 
> My answer was cryptic. Let's recap:
> 
> As seclib >=2 is not available thru PEAR, this dep should be removed
> from package.xml. When the package is available thru composer instead,
> upstream ships it under a bundle directory. Upstream will guide you
> once you've sent the minimal pull-request (i.e with stripped
> package.xml + patches php files).

Got it!

> If Ubuntu is interrested to improve Horde in Debian (and transitively
> in Ubuntu), I need help on #825256

I'll take a look!