Chris, I would say go ahead unless Cleto (who was the last person who cared about zeroc-ice in 2014) or Francisco (who is still listed as maintainer even though he last touched the package in 2012) violenty object.
I am also Ccing ZeroC, Inc. folks, as they might be interested in properly maintaining zeroc-ice in Debian. I am quite sure that there will be always somebody (me, you...) willing to review the packaging and sponsor the upload to Debian if they do the heavy lifting. Cheers, -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server On Mon, May 9, 2016, at 13:36, Chris Knadle wrote: > Ondřej Surý: > > Hi Chris, > > > > thanks for taking care of this. > > > > You can either try to backport PHP portion of 3.7.0-alpha0 to 3.6.2[*], > > or check with upstream if they can finish 3.7.0 before stretch freeze > > and if they can make it package 3.7.0-alpha0 right away. > > > > * - or ask upstream to include this update in 3.6.X > > The reason I'm involved here is that mumble depends on zeroc-ice and is > going to removed with it if this bug isn't handled. > > I looked at a 'diff -U 1' (1 line of context) of the PHP code between > 3.5.1 > and 3.7.0-alpha0 and it's ~10k lines; this is not something that would be > reasonable as a patch in an NMU. I don't think uploading a new version > of > the software as an NMU is in this case either -- someone would have to be > familiar with using the software before they'd be comfortable sponsoring > an > NMU upload and this is a package with niche use. > > Instead the best plan I know of at the moment is removing any PHP > dependencies from the package for now -- meaning commenting out php5-dev > + > php-zeroc-ice dependencies and the entire php-zeroc-ice section in > debian/control and not shipping the php-zeroc-ice binary package for now. > There are no packages that depend on php-zeroc-ice in Debian, so this > shouldn't cause any known breakage. It's not normally what I'd do but I > don't see a better option. > > A debdiff of this is attached. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > chris.kna...@coredump.us > Email had 2 attachments: > + zeroc-ice_3.5.1-6.5.debdiff > 8k (text/plain) > + signature.asc > 1k (application/pgp-signature)
