David Prévot dixit: >I believe the patch is wrong. Why patch at all?
You answer this yourself: >[1] I don’t believe symfony will be upgraded to 5 in bullseye (according But the package relationships should be correct to ease the upgrade process, that is, ± 1 distribution release at least. There’s also downstreams to consider, so having the *correct* version used is certainly sensible. >Since Stretch shipped with 2.8, the latter is probably overkill. Since I Perhaps, but this is not the only case of OR dependencies in the tangled mass of PHP libraries we’ve seen during packaging of Movim. This means any reasoning based on any specific example (and/or distribution release) necessarily fails for incompleteness. Just fix the packaging tools, it can’t be *that* hard. The issue has been open for five years, isn’t that embarassing? bye, //mirabilos -- “I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I'll just restart apache every 10 requests.” -- Rasmus Lerdorf
