[pkg-php-pear] How to indicate PHP8 incompatibility for bullseye (and buster-backports)?

[Ondřej Surý]

What about adding:

Breaks: php8.0-common

?
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> (He/Him)

> On 26. 2. 2021, at 19:43, Guilhem Moulin <guilhem at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> The version of Roundcube we're aiming to include in Bullseye is not
> compatible with PHP8 (#977687).  We've traditionally had unversionned
> Depends: php-* to smooth upgrade paths and let users decide how they
> want to upgrade.  I added (<< 2:8.0~) in order to mark the
> incompatibility:
> 
>    https://salsa.debian.org/roundcube-team/roundcube/-/commit/1add6714e98a3b54b750fca49cf74a11fad050c8
> 
> However on the second thought it's less than ideal because some Bullseye
> users will likely want upgrade to PHP8 via deb.sury.org or other
> third-party repositories.  Changing the Depends to php7.4-* (and
> php7.3-* for buster-backports) is not correct since the package doesn't
> depend on PHP 7.4 per se, but on any version ≥5.4 and <8.0.  Using
> php7.0-$foo | … | php7.3-$foo | php7.4-$foo isn't an option since one
> needs the same version for all dependencies.
> 
> How best to indicate PHP8 incompatibility in the control file then?
> (I'm focusing on Bullseye here, doesn't matter to me if a solution would
> lead to Roundcube being kicked out from testing early in the Bookworm
> release cycle when the PHP8.0 transition completes.)
> 
> Thanks!
> Cheers
> -- 
> Guilhem.