[php-maint] Problem with php-mbstring

[SamuelOPH]

Well, I just found out that there's a list of changes at NEWS.Debian of the
php-7.0 package.

However, libapache2-mod-php is not listed as one of the packages not
provided anymore.

Thanks.

Samuel Henrique O. P. [samueloph]

2016-04-22 14:39 GMT-03:00 SamuelOPH <samueloph at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm contacting you guys to confirm the problem i found is expected or a
> bug.
>
> I'm helping in the packaging of a software which depends on php (not on
> debian repo), and i've made dependency changes to support php7, the basic
> idea of the changes was to change from:
>
>> php5
>>
> to:
>
>> php5 | php
>>
>
> The first problem i found was that the package php lo longer provides
> libapache2-mod-php, considering php5 provides libapache2-mod-php5, so i've
> managed to add:
>
>> libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-php
>>
> to de depends list.
>
> Then i was warned by upstream that libapache2-mod-php no longes provides
> php-mbstring, and by using libapache2-mod-php i should add another
> dependency to php-mbstring.
>
> So two more lines of dependency for php7 support:
>
>> libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-php,
>> libapache2-mod-php5 | php-mbstring,
>>
>
> My question is, shouldn't at least exist some page with instructions for
> bumping depends list to php7, expliciting what should be added in order to
> get the same behavior the package for php5 provided? (maybe there's already
> one, but i wasn't able to find)
>
> Here's my case https://github.com/vufind-org/vufind/pull/681
>
> Thanks!
>
> Samuel Henrique O. P. [samueloph]
>
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