[DRE-maint] Bug#861361: ruby-riddle: update build-depend to unversioned php-cli

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Mon Apr 9 17:38:31 BST 2018


Control: severity -1 serious

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:31:23 -0700 Nishanth Aravamudan
<nish.aravamudan at canonical.com> wrote:
> Package: ruby-riddle
> Version: 1.5.12-4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu artful ubuntu-patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Ubuntu 17.10 (and eventually Debian) are switching the default PHP to
> 7.1. To that end, it is better to depend on the php-cli metapackage,
> unless explicit version-specific dependencies exist (for the CLI this
> seems unlikely).
> 
> In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
> 
> 
>   * d/control: change b-d from php7.0 to php-cli, as there is no
>     specific need for PHP7.0.

Our default PHP version is 7.2 now and we will be removing 7.0 and 7.1 soon, so
let's make this bug RC.

Cheers,
Emilio



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