[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1105768: Bug#1105768: icingaweb2 does not support php 8.4

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/14/25 6:33 PM, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> On 2025-05-14 10:53, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 pending
>>
>> On 5/14/25 4:24 PM, Gabriel Filion wrote:
>>> We just tried to upgrade an icinga2 server to trixie and we found out that the website became very hard to use because there are deprecation notices printed everywhere.
>>
>> This is a repeat of #1037925.
>>
>>> After a short search, we found that there's an upstream issue about adding php 8.4 support, which has still not landed there:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/issues/5269
>>>
>>> so icingaweb2 on trixie is currently running on a version of php that's not yet supported by the webapp.
>>
>> This happens every release, because upstream only cares about enterprise distributions.
> 
> oh wow, that's really annoying :(
> 
> at least the MR that disables deprecation notices for non-test environments was merged upstream and that should help with future releases... at least I hope.

Yes, let's hope they don't revert those error_reporting changes in the future.

>>> In the upstream bug report above there is a link to a merge request that disables the deprecation notices:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/pull/5359
>>>
>>> We should try and apply that to the debian package to see if that makes the web site usable again.
>>
>> Thanks for digging up these changes, they're included in git.
>>
>> Can you try the packages from the CI build?
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/nagios-team/icingaweb2/-/jobs/7581271/ artifacts/browse/debian/output/
> 
> great, I've installed those on top of the current packages in a new VM. the deprecation notices were being shown before I installed the new packages. after installing the packages above the result is much cleaner and the website looks more consistent.
> I have not yet tested csv export since I haven't really created the IDO database in that VM. but I expect it to work better now

Thanks for testing.

It took quite a while to upgrade my Icinga test VM, but I managed to verify the patch there too.

The upload to unstable and unblock request will follow shortly.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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