[pkg-php-pear] php8.6 is coming

[David Prévot]

Hi,

Thanks to Ondřej who uploaded php8.6 [1] a while ago, including 
php-default [2] depending on it into experimental, we now have a view of 
the packages that may prevent the php8.6 transition as per #1149581 [3].

1: https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?experimental=1&package=php8.6
2: https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?experimental=1&package=php-defaults
3: https://bugs.debian.org/1149581

It would be nice to start filing bugs against packaging failing to build 
or with debci issues (with appropriate “blocked 1149581 by -1” Control: 
entry), and probably even better, to fix those issues ASAP.

I’m starting to look at these issues, starting from the bottom of the 
alphabetical list of packages from [2] (and waiting for [1] to provide 
useful results). I don’t intend to look closely at packages that are not 
currently part of testing (yet I’d welcome to get them either fixed or 
out of unstable). Are there any volunteers for this effort? We could 
start a pad or wiki page for coordination if so!

[ Explicit CC to Athos who was interested in the effort but may miss
   some mails sent to this list IIRC the last BoF [4]. ]

4: https://debconf26.debconf.org/talks/48-php-bof/

I guess some MBF effort may be worth it, but please do discuss them here 
first, and probably include Ondřej in the discussion before filing them, 
in order to avoid unnecessary tension about unwanted efforts.

Cheers,

taffit

P.-S.: in the last few days, I also updated some team maintained 
packages to the last upstream release when appropriate, updating the 
packaging part in the hope to make the next upload smoother. We’re 
probably close enough to the freeze so that it would be useful to 
continue updating packages (or raise an RC-bug against them if they’re 
not worth being shipped into Debian 14).

P.-P.-S.: James, I noticed you uploaded un updated Laravel stack, that’s 
great! Enabling the testsuite, as documented in #976785, would indeed be 
useful. Have you recently looked at the potentiel blockers about that?