[pkg-php-pear] updating nusoap package

[Fab Stz]

Hello everyone, 

I recently created php-econea-nusoap package which is actually an update of 
nusoap package. More details below.

https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pear/php-econea-nusoap/

Any comments on this please?

Rgds
Fab

Le lundi 25 juillet 2022, 13:02:39 CEST Fab Stz a écrit :
> 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