[Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] Bug#990322: Backport patch to allow kopanocore to build against PHP 8

Bryce Harrington bryce at bryceharrington.org
Fri Jun 25 17:27:28 BST 2021


Source: kopanocore
Version: 8.7.0-7.1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch

kopanocore 8.7.0-7.1 will FTBFS when built with PHP 8 or later.

This isn't an issue in debian currently since PHP 7.4 is still the
default.  For Ubuntu we've dropped 7.4 and moved to 8.0, and discovered
this failure.  Fortunately there is a patch available from upstream to
move to 8.0, however it does not apply cleanly on top of 8.7.0-7.1 due
to some intermediary refactoring in upstream's tree.  The original
upstream patch is:

    https://github.com/Kopano-dev/kopano-core/commit/9b3bbd27ea63af180ce73a30a218d34b6e6535a4

At least one of the refactoring changes needed to make that apply is:

    https://github.com/Kopano-dev/kopano-core/commit/b8d29e9f58440f1d75bddf77df3d25fd6367af20

However, there are some other differences such as changes for APIs not
included in 8.7.0-7.1, etc.  So I ended up doing a reimplementation of
the patch:

    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kopanocore/8.7.0-7.1ubuntu4

Please note one important addition I made to configure.ac to enable the
build:

+ 	AS_CASE([$PHP_VERSION],
+ 		[5.*], [with_php=5],
+-		[7.*], [with_php=7]
++		[7.*], [with_php=7],
++		[8.*], [with_php=7]

IOW this tricks the Makefile into treating PHP 8 as the same as PHP 7,
which for purposes of the build logic is fine.  However, this could
likely be done better (e.g. by merging the php-ext and php7-ext
directories together, as was done in commit b8d29e9f).

Thanks,
Bryce

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