upgrade php-memcache for PHP7.0

[Nish Aravamudan]

The current version of src:php-memcache produces php5-memcache. As we look to transition to PHP7.0, we need to update to the latest version.

URL: https://github.com/websupport-sk/pecl-memcache
License: PHP 3.0
Notes: This external version of php-memcache has not yet been packaged in Debian.

For the purposes of bootstrapping in a PPA, I modified the existing src:php-memcache directly to the version from the above URL, and made the following alterations:

d/c: s/php5/php/
d/c: s/PHP5/PHP/
d/php5* -> d/php*
d/r: s/php5/php/

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

It looks like we already have the latest upstream release packaged (3.0.8) and we need to pull git HEAD here, is that correct?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Grabbed the php-memcache package from the ppa; feedback:
 - you have labelled this package as '3.0.9'. However there is no upstream release 3.0.9 that I can find. If it has been released, please point me to it. If not, we should not use this version number on upstream's behalf. (For my testing, I used 3.0.8+20151130.fdbd46b, which corresponds to the current git commit.)
 - the contents of the orig.tar.gz unpack into a memcache-3.0.8 subdirectory, which reinforces the belief that this is not a new upstream release; you then apply a diff from debian/patches that completely removes the contents of memcache-3.0.8 and replaces them with a memcache-3.0.9 directory. This is awkward. If we are going to bump the upstream version number at all then the orig.tar.gz should contain the actual sources for that version; if we're not going to bump it then debian/patches should apply in place, not replacing one subdirectory with another. (the latter implies not updating the version string i package.xml.)
- your description of the process to create the new source package is somewhat incomplete; there are references to php5 in the debian/php5* files that also need to be changed. That's fine, easily figured out and you've done this in your version of the package.
- the build dependencies listed for this package are all satisfied at present in xenial, but building with the modified source package against the xenial versions of the build-deps yields an empty package containing no .so. So it appears newer versions of php-pear and/or pkg-php-tools are required before this package can be built. It is preferable to express this as a versioned build-dependency, so that we avoid accidental misbuilds.

I'll attach the source package I've generated here. Please review it and let me know if I've made any mistakes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package php-memcache - 3.0.9~20151130.fdbd46b-0ubuntu1

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php-memcache (3.0.9~20151130.fdbd46b-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream git snapshot. LP: #1543349.
  * Update to build against php7, with versioned build-dependency against
    pkg-php-tools >= 1.32~ to avoid misbuild before php7 support has landed
    in those tools.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:25:13 -0800