[pkg-php-pear] php-swiftmailer's removal and Kanboard

[Joe Nahmias]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 06:04:24PM +0200, Robin Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi team and Joseph,
> 
> I intend(ed) to request the removal of php-swiftmailer from the archive
> after the trixie release (it's not in trixie) because it's long abandoned
> upstream.
> 
> I noticed that Joseph recently reintroduced Kanboard, its only
> reverse-dependency nowadays, to unstable and pushed a few commits to the
> php-swiftmailer Salsa repo.
> 
> Joseph: are you interested in maintaining the libphp-swiftmailer package?
> 
> Because, frankly, I'm not.
> 
> Alternatively, perhaps Kanboard can be patched to use the suggested
> replacement, symfony-mailer, instead?
> 
> If you do want to maintain Swiftmailer, consider basing it on the
> FriendsOfSymfony1 fork [1].
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony1/swiftmailer

Hi Robin,

Thanks for reaching out! I had intended to see if I could get swiftmailer,
and thus kanboard, reintroduced into testing for the time being and then
investigate other options.

Ideally, I will be able to update kanboard to use symfony-mailer and
convince upstream to follow that path.

On the other hand, kanboard upstream already vendors swiftmailer -- which
I had stripped out due to policy. However, if the conversion is a large
effort, perhaps it makes sense to ask for an exception in this case...

At the very least, I can forward the patches we have for newer PHPUnit
versions to the FOS1 group you mentioned.

Thoughts?

> -- 
> Regards,
> Robin
> 
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--Joe