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

[Robin Gustafsson]

Hi,

On 9/7/25 05:44, Joe Nahmias wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 06:04:24PM +0200, Robin Gustafsson wrote:
>> [...]
>> 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.

Alright. I'll leave the fixing of php-swiftmailer to you.

Please request php-swiftmailer's removal once its no longer needed.

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

Sounds good.

> 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...

Personally, I think it's better to keep the php-swiftmailer package than 
to include the vendored version in Kanboard. At least php-swiftmailer 
has tests and is visible for security tracking.

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

Sure. If php-swiftmailer stays for long then I think it may help to pull 
new upstream versions from the fork even. They seem to at least add 
support for new PHP versions.

-- 
Regards,
Robin

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