[pkg-kolab] Bug#821687: Bug#821687: src:libkolabxml: PHP 7.0 Transition

[Ondřej Surý]

Control: severity -1 serious

Hi Sandro,

ok then. I am setting severity to serious, so the swig related packages
doesn't block PHP 7.0 transition.

Cheers,
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, at 14:01, Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Control: block -1 821715
> 
> We need to wait till swig supports php7. See error log.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> sandro
> 
> --
> Am Montag, 18. April 2016, 23:02:29 CEST schrieb Ondřej Surý:
> > Package: src:libkolabxml
> > Severity: important
> > User: pkg-php-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Usertags: php7.0-transition
> > 
> > Dear maintainer(s),
> > 
> > this bug is a part of ongoing php7.0 transition.  It is filled as
> > important, but the severity will be bumped to serious within quite short
> > (~month) timeframe as the transition was announced almost 3 months ago.
> > 
> > The libkolabxml package currently build-depends on php5 php5-cli
> > php5-dev .
> > 
> > PHP 7.0 has landed in unstable with substantial changes to the packaging:
> > 
> >   1. Every package built from src:phpMAJOR.MINOR now include
> >      phpMAJOR.MINOR in the name, so f.e. php5-fpm is now php7.0-fpm.
> > 
> >   2. Accompanying src:php-defaults builds 1:1 mapping to a default
> >      MAJOR.MINOR version, e.g. php-fpm depends on php7.0-fpm.  When you
> >      specify a dependency, please use the generic name, unless you
> >      absolutely know that won't work for you.
> > 
> >   3. Every path in the system has been changed to a versioned, e.g.
> >      /etc/php5/cli is now /etc/php/7.0/cli
> > 
> >   4. dh_php5 is now dh_php
> > 
> >   5. php-pear is not built from independent source package.
> > 
> >   6. master-7.0 branches of several extensions (php-apcu, xdebug,
> >      php-apcu-bc) can be used as a template how to change the PHP
> >      extension packaging.  It's mostly cut&paste since the d/rules tries
> >      to figure-out most of the variables from debian/ directory.
> > 
> >   7. pkg-php-tools package now supports PHP 7.0 packaging and if your
> >      package uses pkg-php-tools a simple binNMU is all it might need
> > 
> >   8. PHP 7.0 has changed extension API, so most-if-not-all extensions
> >      need work from upstream to be compatible with PHP 7.0.
> > 
> >   9. We expect to ship next Debian release (stretch) only with PHP
> >      7.0, that means that all packages needs to be made compatible with
> >      PHP 7.0.  Fortunately the PHP 7.0 is mostly compatible with properly
> >      maintained software.  However some extensions has been deprecated
> >      (f.e. mysql) and thus old unmaintained software will stop working
> >      and it will have to be either patched or removed from stable Debian.
> > 
> > So what you need to do:
> > 
> > Replace every occurence of php5 with just php, e.g. if you depend on
> > 'php5' then you just need to depend on 'php'.  Also if you package a web
> > application and depend on specific SAPI, I would recommend depending just
> > on 'php' package and let the user decide whether he will install php-fpm,
> > libapache2-mod-php or php-cgi.
> > 
> > The script that was used to get the list of packages for MBF was not a
> > particular smart one (so it doesn't detect alternatives, etc.), so if
> > there's a false positive, please excuse me and just close the bug with
> > short explanation.
> > 
> > The other options that might be used with packages that don't and won't
> > support PHP 7.0 is to remove the software from Debian by changing the
> > title of this bugreport to:
> > 
> >     RM: libkolabxml -- ROM; doesn't support PHP 7.0
> > 
> > reassigning it to ftp.debian.org pseudo-package and changing severity to
> > 'normal'.
> > 
> > Also feel free to contact the maintainers at one of the lists:
> > 
> > pkg-php-pear at lists.alioth.debian.org -- for PEAR related packages
> > pkg-php-pecl at lists.alioth.debian.org -- for PHP extensions
> > pkg-php-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org -- main PHP packaging and catch-all
> > 
> > Cheers, Ondrej
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 8.4
> >   APT prefers stable-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
> > 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-35-generic (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> > 
> > 
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