[pkg-php-pear] updating nusoap package

[Fab Stz]

Hi,

In the end, I updated the package to 0.9.12 with the changes mentioned below. 
This can of course be changed. Any comment is welcome.

Rgds
Fab

Le lundi 25 juillet 2022, 08:08:16 CEST Fab Stz a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> src:nusoap package [1] hasn't been updated for a long time now. Actually,
> upstream hasn't released a new version since 2011 and last upstream version
> doesn't support php >=7.
> 
> However there is an active fork [2] that is maintained and provides support
> for up to php 8.1. The composer name of that fork is "econea/nusoap".
> 
> I'm in the process of taking src:nusoap and update it with that package.
> 
> For now I just took the repo from alioth archive and uploaded it without
> additional change to salsa (I just renamed the repo to php-econea-nusoap)
> [3]
> 
> I plan to rename the src & bin packages this way:
> src:nusoap → bin:php-econea-nusoap
> src:libnusoap-php → bin:php-econea-nusoap
> 
> And also change install dir to conform to the new "composer" scheme.
> /usr/share/php/nusoap → /usr/share/php/Econea/Nusoap
> 
> (I haven't found any reverse dependencies for libnusoap-php)
> 
> Then I would need a sponsor.
> 
> Any comments on these renaming & plans?
> 
> (please leave my email in your reply)
> 
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nusoap
> [2] https://github.com/f00b4r/nusoap
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/php-econea-nusoap
> 
> 
> Rgds
> Fab