[pkg-php-pear] Bug#1092095: php-gettext: debci failure with PHPUnit 11

[Pete Batard]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the context of this bug, as my current take on 
this is that php-gettext is at risk of being removed from Trixie purely 
on account that:

- There exists a *downstream* package (tt-rss, i.e. not an actual 
dependency of php-gettext) that is posing a problem.
- The PHPUnit text fails merely on account that php-gettext outputs some 
data to stderr, and newer PHPUnit, which didn't care about that in the 
past, no longer does by default.

If that is the case, then I hardly see how the above is enough to 
warrant the removal of what I assert is a *critical* package for anyone 
who wants to serve localised PHP content using Debian, and I would urge 
the maintainers of the package to re-evaluate their assessment to fix 
the issue and reinstate php-gettext as part of Trixie.

For reference, I am using php-gettext on a Debian Apache/PHP server as a 
means to (indirectly) generate localised pages for my website at 
https://rufus.ie (where, ironically, one can download a popular Windows 
application that can help folks install Debian). So not having 
php-gettext being part of Trixie is a complete dealbreaker for me in 
terms of being able to use the next version of Debian as a web server, 
and I suspect that I am far from being the only Debian user in this case...

Therefore, I hope that the current removal of php-gettext from Trixie is 
being treated as a transient issue, that is being looked into and that 
is going to be addressed before release, rather than a hint that the 
Debian maintainers do plans to drop the whole package altogether.

Thank you,

/Pete