[Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] Bug#908805: kopano-server: Backporting kopano-server needs php7.0

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Hai Carsten,

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > To detect the php-dev version. 
> > PHP_VERSION=$(dpkg -s php-dev | grep -i version | cut -d":" 
> -f3 |awk -F"+" '{ print $1}')
> 
> we took a slightly different approach here in one of the 
> recent changes
> to kopanocore, but the thing is the same in the end. Unfortunately it  has taken this long time.

Yes i did see that, i did see kopanocore (8.6.90-1)  and now also kopanocore (8.6.91-1)  
Great work.. I'll have a good look next year :-) 

..
> > 
> > My goal is here is a stable kopano server on debian stretch 
> with backported packages. 
> > If you want build logs, let me know, i'll put them online if wanted.
> 
> We never had the time to do any backporting of the Kopano related
> packages as at least in my impression we simply don't have reached a
> quality state we would need to provide backported packages. Some
> additional kopano-webapp packages (e.g. smime) are also 
> needed to get a  complete suite of packages.

Yes, i noticed, same, on my todo for next year. 

> 
> Buster is just some months to go so we wont do anything for backporting the current state to Stretch.
> 
> If you want to step as a package maintainer for missing kopano-webapp packages e.g. 
> please join the mailing lists. We are happy to get new members into the team!

I'll think about it, i'll at least will join the mailing list.
And i'll have a quick look if im able to package these. Because im not a coder, just in system adminstrator. 

> 
> -- 
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
> 
> 

Best regards, 

Louis