[pkg-php-pear] Bug#745846: ITP: phpunit-version -- library that helps with managing the version number of Git-hosted PHP projects

[Prach Pongpanich]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 2:45 AM, David Prévot <david at tilapin.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Le 25/04/2014 14:14, David Prévot a écrit :
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>> * Package name    : phpunit-version
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>> It’s a needed dependency for the upcoming PHPUnit 4 and will be
>> maintained inside the PHP PEAR team.
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> The resulting package is very small, and the code is even smaller than
> its documentation:
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> $ du -sh /usr/share/php/SebastianBergmann/Version \
>          /usr/share/doc/phpunit-version
> 12K     /usr/share/php/SebastianBergmann/Version
> 24K     /usr/share/doc/phpunit-version
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> I doubt ftpmasters will appreciate such package, I’ll look closer at the
> other new phpunit-$stuff needed for #744876 before opening another ITP.
> In the mean time, I’ve pushed a packaging repository to Alioth (Prach, I
> set you up as an uploader, I hope that’s OK with you):
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>         http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/phpunit-version.git
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> (It’s ready for upload, but I’d like to clarify the status of the other
> phpunit-$stuff before doing so.)
>
> PHPUnit 4.0 seems still available via PEAR for now, but I’m not sure
> there is a proper tool available to “extract” phar files (as we do for
> some .jar, e.g., in the moz-ext team), is there?
>

It's embedded dependencies (need to repack), I think we should use an
upstream source from github (Composer) for the long term. What do you
think?

FYI, "pear.phpunit.de will be shut down no later than December, 31 2014" [0][1].

[0] http://phpunit.de/
[1] https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/End-of-Life-for-PEAR-Installation-Method

Regards,
Prach