[pkg-php-pear] Uploading symfony 5 to unstable [Was: symfony_5.3.9+dfsg-1_amd64.changes is NEW]

[Robin Gustafsson]

Hi David,

> >> Once symfony and its new dependency get processed from NEW, I intend to
> >> upload it to unstable.
>
> php-symfony-mercure has been in NEW for about a month, and it’s in the
> first half of the NEW queue, so I expect it to be processed “soon”. Once
> that happens, I intend to upload symfony 5.3 to unstable.

Thanks for the update. I've been quite busy lately, but I still intend
(hope) to take care of this upgrade soon.

> > For one, php-laravel-framework depends on Symfony 4. There are newer
> > upstream versions available that use Symfony 5 though. I'll try to
> > reserve time for that upgrade sometime soon then.
>
> Thanks! Can you please check if you could make it work with
> php-email-validator 3.1 by the way (that’s the only package that seems
> to prevent upgrading it, php-swiftmailer upstream version looks ready).

Good to have that pointed out, thanks. I've added it to my checklist
for this upgrade.

> > My plan was otherwise to wait for Laravel 9 (LTS), but that's
> > targeting Symfony 6 even. I'll see how feasible it'd be to patch it
> > for Symfony 5 compatibility once it's released.
>
> OK. I didn’t find anything about Laraval 9 in the upstream VCS,
> hopefully they’ ll make it compatible with an LTS version of Symfony too
> (Symfony 6.4, the next LTS, is expected in early 2024 IIRC).

Upstream's "master" branch has the "9.x-dev" alias. Unfortunately, I
think they're going for >=6 [1,2]. Hopefully it won't be too
incompatible in practice.

[1] https://blog.laravel.com/laravel-9-release-date
[2] https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/composer.json#L34-L43


Regards,
Robin