[php-maint] [pkg-php-pear] Bug#814809: Moving forward with the PHP 7.0 transition [Was: phing depends on php5-xdebug, which is not available anymore]

[Ondřej Surý]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016, at 22:27, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> [...]
> > [ pkg-php-tools ]
> >
> > About the “root” issue, Mathieu, what are the current blockers holding
> > the still current “pkg-php-tools package is still WIP”? [0] Is there
> > anything we can help with in order to start making our PHP classes ready
> > for the ongoing transition?
> 
> There is no blocker. I'll upload it soon.
> 
> 
> > Among the things I was wondering that might need handling in order to
> > make this transition possible without having to deal manually with every
> > version of every (build-)dependency, recommendation, etc. of every
> > package:
> [...]
> 
> No idea, but we're already in a broken state, we need to go ahead now.

I still have the src:php5 dummy package in my sleeve, but since the
jessie's php5 can happily coexist with the new package, I would rather
leave that as an last-resort option to allow graceful upgrades from
jessie to stretch.

I am guessing that most of the work would be done by binNMUs with new
pkg-php-tools (and perhaps a new ftp queue blocking lintian error? any
takers for filling that?) and the rest would get solved manually.

Ubuntu (added Nish and Robies to Cc) has already done a great share of
work since they are working hard on having PHP 7.0 in Ubuntu Xenial and
I have a strong promise they will contribute back the patches (after the
dust settles).

Cheers,
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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