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

[Robin Gustafsson]

Hi David,

Thanks for your input!

> 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.

Absolutely, I'm all for respecting the recommended timeline. I
prepared the NMU already to leave more time for review (a passing
mention in the first point of the NMU guidelines [1]). I'm fine with
either approach.

> 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.

My intention was to help them keep it in testing. Perhaps that's
unnecessary or simply "not my job".

My eagerness to get involved through a NMU was based on the
transitions workflow's [2] multiple mentions of NMUs, which I
interpreted as it being expected during transitions. I assumed it was
at least preferable to having the reverse-dependencies removed.

> 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.

If an NMU risks being seen as hostile (more so than having the package
removed) then I'll avoid it. I too would prefer to step on as few toes
as possible in this process.

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs#when-and-how-to-do-an-nmu
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions

Regards,
Robin