[pkg-php-pear] Package naming problem (php-codesniffer vs. php-squizlabs-php-codesniffer)

[Katharina Drexel]

Hi Robin,

perfect, that's exactly what I needed!
The package installs now without any problems.

Many thanks
Katharina

On Thursday, 2022-08-04, 21:12:28 (GMT +0200), Robin Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi Katharina,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:41 PM Katharina Drexel
> <katharina.drexel at bfh.ch> wrote:
> >
> > When building and installing a package I got the error:
> > -----%<---------
> > php-laravel-mail-auto-embed depends on php-squizlabs-php-codesniffer (>= 3.5); however:
> >   Package php-squizlabs-php-codesniffer is not installed.
> > ----->%--------
> > The package exists but with the name "php-codesniffer" (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/php-codesniffer).
> >
> > For getting out of troubles I workarounded that with a meta-package
> > "php-squizlabs-php-codesniffer" that traces the package "php-codesniffer" as
> > dependency (https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/php-squizlabs-php-codesniffer/), but there might be more elegant approaches (of course I could adopt the composer.json or control file in the newly built package, but there will be other people and packages that will run into the same problem I guess).
> > Did anybody make a similar experience and/or has a sustainable solution for that?
> 
> There's indeed already a solution to this: debian/pkg-php-tools-overrides.
> 
>     echo 'squizlabs php_codesniffer php-codesniffer' >
> debian/pkg-php-tools-overrides
> 
> See the man pages for dh_phpcomposer and dh_phppear for details.
> 
> Regards,
> Robin
> 
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