[pkg-php-pear] Upcoming transitions (Symfony, PHPUnit, etc.)

[Robin Gustafsson]

Hi David,

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:47 PM David Prévot <david at tilapin.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that Bookworm has been published, it’s already time to prepare the
> next transitions as soon as possible in the Trixie release cycle.
>
> ## Symfony 6
>
> The main one IMHO will be symfony from 5 to 6. [...]
>
> [...] I can think of at least phpMyAdmin and Laravel that are
> currently depending on symfony 5, but it would be nice to gather
> information about other non-ready packages (and fill bugs…).

Indeed, Laravel will need a major version upgrade to be compatible
with Symfony 6. php-laravel-framework unfortunately has only
superficial autopkgtests, so I don't know if it'll ever show up in
that list.

> [...]
> ## PHPUnit 10
>
> It is available in experimental since February (less than a month after
> its release IIRC), and the experimental pseudo-excuse page is great to
> show the amount of work needed.
>
> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?experimental=1&package=phpunit

At the moment I see only "Test in progress" on all packages, so I
can't confirm which of "my" packages are broken, but I'll prioritize
taking care of those.

> [...]
> ## Other
>
> I’d like to move php-email-validator from 3 to 4 too, and I guess Robin
> intend to update Laravel too.

Yes I do. I intend to upgrade Laravel to version 10 (newest), and its
dependencies along with it. That should fix some PHPUnit 10 and
Symfony 6 incompatibilities along the way too.

I hope to get it done much sooner this time than in the last cycle.

Regards,
Robin