[pkg-php-pear] RFS of NMU to resolve transition

[David Prévot]

Hi Robin,

Le 22/12/2020 à 11:19, Robin Gustafsson a écrit :

> I'm looking for a sponsor for an NMU of the package "movim" [1]. It's
> to resolve a transition [2] related to PHP packages that I maintain
> within this team.

Thank you, this is also blocking the migration of doctrine (the version 
fixing compatibility with PHPUnit 9) and thus the migration of the whole 
PHPUnit 9 stack.

AFAICT, the only other blocker for the PHPUnit 9 migration is 
php-imagick, and I’m also considering an NMU to fix #977824.

With both these fixes (migrated to testing), I believe a simple [nudge] 
will be enough to finish the PHPUnit 9 “transition”.


You opened #976886 a while ago, but made it RC only on December 20th, so 
following the traditional [NMU] guideline, it could be sent as 0-day NMU 
starting on December 27th. I opened #977824 on December 21st, so for the 
same reason I’m willing to wait until December 28th before proceeding.

I could upload both NMU with an explicit delay, but I’m hoping 
maintainers will react until then… Since it’s holidays in most part of 
the world, I guess a longer delay would be appreciated.

I’m actually wondering if fixing movim is worth it: if a fix is uploaded 
early in January, the fixed version will reach testing five days later, 
but if we do nothing, movim is actually “marked for autoremoval from 
testing on Wed 06 Jan 2021”, so won’t hold the php-laravel-framework, 
doctrine and phpunit transitions anymore.

nudge: 
https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/phpunit/-/commit/c013993137490dade30acf7e97c584b262e3ae93#58ef006ab62b83b4bec5d81fe5b32c3b4c2d1cc2_42_42

NMU: 
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs#when-and-how-to-do-an-nmu

Regards

David

P.-S.: to be clear, I’m willing to sponsor your request if nobody beats 
me to it, but I’d rather do nothing if it gets us the same results. 
Previous interactions with movim maintainers as seen in #932564 makes me 
think I should stay as far away as possible from this package.