Le 19/02/2022 à 13:58, Hirotaka Wakabayashi via devel a écrit :
Hello, I have a question about Fedora Package Naming.
php-guzzlehttp-guzzle's version is 5.3.4, which is already EOL version
by upstream. The latest version is 7.4.1.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/php-guzzlehttp-guzzle
<https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/php-guzzlehttp-guzzle>
https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle#version-guidance
<https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle#version-guidance>
In this situation, if I want to package the 7.4.1. version, should the
package name be php-guzzlehttp-guzzle7? Or should I submit a patch to
change the php-guzzlehttp-guzzle version? I think php-guzzlehttp-guzzle
should be upgraded because EOL products potentially contain security
issues, but most users probably doesn't know the package is EOL or not
when they install it.
Notice: PHP libraries usually follow semver, so major version means
breaking changes. i.e. v5, v6 and v7 are not compatible.
For guzzle, we have
php-guzzlehttp-guzzle6 version 6.5.5
php-guzzlehttp-guzzle version 5.3.4
php-guzzle-Guzzle version 3.9.3 (retired)
IMHO, we should always use version in name
even if the package name doesn't really matter as we should
always use virtual provides, php-composer(guzzlehttp/guzzle) and range
dependencies.
OK, I know Fedora policy prefers to create "compat" packages
for old versions, but this is a nightmare to maintain as each
update will break everything
if "php-foo" provides a library v1 in /usr/share/php/Foo
a major update will break other packages
creating a compat "php-foo1" in /usr/share/php/Foo1
won't help (other package will have to be fixed)
keeping the compat "php-foo1" in /usr/share/php/Foo
and update the "php-foo" to use /usr/share/php/Foo2
may work, but is really confusing.
BTW I start thinking using system libraries in PHP app
was a interesting adventure, but it also means fightning with
php and composer usage, where everything is bundled in each project.
In the near future a lot of PHP system libraries are going to
be removed from Fedora repository because of fail to build or
fail to install. And there is not enough maintainers to fix them.
(I'm working on building a list I will post on "php-devel" ML)
To be clear nobody uses PHP system libraries directly.
Users needs app (composer, phpMyAdmin, nextcloud, wordpress...)
Developers only use composer to install project dependencies
in the project directory.
As I already said elsewhere, I'm sad, but I'm tired to fight
with PHP projects which don't care of system wide installation
and don't support them, and don't want them, and to fight with
Fedora which don't care of the PHP stack.
Remi
Regards,
Hirotaka
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