[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. symfony 5 is a priori the version that should be
> shipped with Bookworm, so as usual, uploading this version early enough
> during the release cycle seems like a good plan (and symfony 4 is not
> fully compatible with PHP 8 anyway IIRC).
>
> symfony is getting used in a lot of packages these days, so I’d expect
> this upgrade to be more disruptive than it used to be in previous
> release cycles. I intend to fix whatever will be broken when it’s under
> our team’s umbrella, and file bugs for other packages, but I’ll welcome
> any help ;).

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.

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.

Regards,
Robin