[pkg-php-pear] Bug#980389: Run phpunit test suite

[Marco Villegas]

Package: php-easyrdf
Version: 0.9.1-5
Source: php-easyrdf
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-php-pear at lists.alioth.debian.org

Originally, at the initially packaged 0.9.1 version, phpunit ~3.5 was
required. That version was incompatible with the version at the
unstable archive at the time of the initial packaging.

From 1.0.0 up to current stable at 1.1.1, the phpunit requirement is ^7.
Current phpunit at unstable has been four days ago[1], at version
9.5.0-5.

As David pointed out at the mailing list, there is some upstream effort
to make php8 compatibility. That is happening at the
pr/test-php8-compatibility branch, with a related upstream pull
request[2]. As njh points out there, those changes are mainly about
compatibility with newer phpunit.

Overall, it should be possible to run the test suite now. 
If not directly, maybe after adding some of the changes from that pull
request commits set. Let us do that.

Best,

1: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1219647/phpunit-950-5-migrated-to-testing/
2: https://github.com/easyrdf/easyrdf/pull/373

- Marco