[arch-dev-public] Upcoming PHP 8.1 update

[Pierre Schmitz]

So far everything looks fine. I am even using PHP 8.1 in production
for a week now, without any issues. So I'd like to move the packages
to [extra].

The remaining blocker is nextcloud though.  What is the best option to
resolve this?
1) Remove the version constraint
2) same as above + try to apply the upstream patch:
https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/29862
3) temporary depend on php7; I'd like to remove that package soon though
4) anything else?

Greetings,

Pierre

On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 11:09 AM Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>
> I have finished the rebuild of modules und pushed all packages into
> [testing]: . https://archlinux.org/todo/draft-php-81-module-rebuild/
>
> Unfortunately there are two packages that had build issues:
> * libguestfs: No idea why it has a PHP module anyway. But this package
> does not compile with [extra] packages as well, so it is likely
> unrelated to PHP and probably cuased by an ocaml update. I used the
> repos archive from last month to build this package for now.
> * php-snuffleupagus: Does not pass tests with PHP 8.1 and there seems
> to be no upstream patches we could apply. (pkgstats usage is only
> 0.03%) I have disabled the failing tests for now.
>
> Next is to check if there remain any incompatibilities aside from
> modules; e.g. the nextcloud version constrain we talked about. I might
> create a todo list as well.
>
> Removing php7 and everything that depends on it will be done in a
> separate step once php 8.1 has moved into [extra].
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 2:00 PM Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> >
> > So, its been some time and things seem to look a lot better now. I see
> > the nextcloud patch was merged some time ago as well. We might need to
> > aplly it manually as I don't see a patch release for some reason. Most
> > things work fine with PHP 8.1. So far the issues are mostly arbitrary
> > versions constraints or actual bugs that would be broken on 8.0 as
> > well. (e.g. conflicting type hints in sub classes)
> >
> > My plan is to prepare updating the php package to 8.1 and create a
> > rebuild list. At the same time I'll remove the php7 package. It's been
> > a year now and I would consider anything that only works on php7 as
> > unmaintained. Here is a list of php7-packages that would be affected:
> > * mediawiki: works fine with PHP 8
> > * drupal: should work on PHP 8 according to upstream
> > * zabbix-frontend-php: unclear; I read that it might have been fixed
> > in version 5.4
> > * phpvirtualbox: probably broken; latest release was in 2018. This
> > should be remvoed fro mthe repos imho
> > * web-news: brobably broken; latest release was in 2009. Also should be removed.
> > * phppgadmin: probably broken; development seem slow or stalled on PHP
> > 8 support. We might need to drop this as well
> > * phpldapadmin: might work. New version was just released and claims
> > to support anything newer than PHP 7.2
> > * dokuwiki: unclear; might need patches
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 6:53 PM David Runge <dave at sleepmap.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2021-12-06 18:32:49 (+0100), Pierre Schmitz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> > > > In general we could provide PHP 7 till its end of life in about eleven
> > > > months. But I don't think its worth providing several different minor
> > > > versions at the same time.
> > >
> > > I agree.
> > >
> > > > This is not how semver is supposed to work :-) (Someone should check
> > > > Nextcloud but looking at their PR it mostly seems about tests,
> > > > documentation and deprecations but no hard errors).
> > >
> > > I would definitely wait until the PR for nextcloud [1] has settled (it's
> > > still a draft).
> > > The changes apply to 23.0.0 (which has been in testing only for a few
> > > hours).
> > > Do note, that effects of php 8.1.0 on the nextcloud-apps is completely
> > > unaccounted for in this scenario.
> > >
> > > I would like to have nextcloud 23.0.0 in [community] before we proceed
> > > with any testing with php 8.1.0 if that is fine with you.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > David
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/29862/commits
> > >
> > > --
> > > https://sleepmap.de
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
>
>
>
> --
> Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com



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