[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#915699: phppgadmin is not compatible with php 7

[Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais]

It seems the main project leader came back to maintain the project.

See: https://xzilla.net//blog/2018/Nov/The-Ghost-of-phpPgAdmin.html

According to this blog post, support for PHP 7 is expected soon or later.


On Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:45:09 +0100
Ladislav Wartha <lwartha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: phppgadmin
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>      Simply PHP 7.0 stopped accepting old syntax of php 5, and php 7 is
>      now default
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
>      simply downloaded php7 compatible version from git:
>      https://github.com/halojoy/phppgadmin-for-PHP7
> 
>      However its not from original developer and didn't have time to
>      check differences between new and old source and if there were some
>      security holes.
>      
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>      was working, but seems like nobody is maintaining phppgadmin :-(
> 
>      According one note I found on the internet, PostgreSQL 10 is no
>      longer compatible with phppgadmin 5.1, hope somebody will takeover
>      over development.
> 
>      I would expect at least to set dependency to old php release not to
>      php7, best case scenario, you will implement the version from
>      github.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.6
>   APT prefers stable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages phppgadmin depends on:
> ii  dpkg                      1.18.25
> ii  libjs-jquery              3.1.1-2
> ii  libphp-adodb              5.20.9-1
> ii  php                       1:7.0+49
> ii  php-cgi                   1:7.0+49
> ii  php-pgsql                 1:7.0+49
> ii  php7.0 [php]              7.0.30-0+deb9u1
> ii  php7.0-cgi [php-cgi]      7.0.30-0+deb9u1
> ii  php7.0-pgsql [php-pgsql]  7.0.30-0+deb9u1
> 
> Versions of packages phppgadmin recommends:
> ii  apache2 [httpd]  2.4.25-3+deb9u6
> 
> Versions of packages phppgadmin suggests:
> ii  postgresql      9.6+181+deb9u2
> pn  postgresql-doc  <none>
> pn  slony1-bin      <none>