16.04 (Xenial Xerus) php-gearman request

[hallboy3]

[Impact]

* php-gearman is not available to install in 16.04, as it was not PHP7 compliant at release-time. It has since been fixed upstream and in Debian to be PHP7 compliant.

* Users upgrading from 14.04, expect the package to be available in the archives.

[Test Case]

* Attempt to install php-gearman, it will not be present in 16.04, without this fix.

[Regression Potential]

* From an archive perspective, there is no chance for regression, as the package does not currently exist in 16.04.

* If a user installed gearman from source to the system PHP directories, then they are unlikely to be affected by this backport, as they will not use the package. If they choose to use the package by manual installation, then they are accepting the packaged version may overwrite their from-source version.

* php-gearman is a leaf package, so this should not affect any other packages in the archive (it would not have been originally removable otherwise).

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php-gearman extension isn't available in Ubuntu 16.04 but it exists in
14.04 and next releases.

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

Right, at first glance (based on some lp searches) it seems like T/Y/Z has it but not X

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-gearman
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+source/php-gearman

Will investigate further after holidays.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like it was removed during the development phase of 16.04 since it was php5 only. See

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-gearman/+publishinghistory
or
bug 1547183

[Eric Desrochers (slashd)]

Right at that time, the upstream gearman source did not support PHP7.0 :

https://github.com/hjr3/pecl-gearman/issues/12

[hallboy3 (hallboy3)]

Thanks for reply.

For Y/Z this package copied from Debian's development distribution (sid).
Ondřej Surý uses https://github.com/wcgallego/pecl-gearman repo for php7
https://github.com/hjr3/pecl-gearman/issues/12#issuecomment-211477243

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Yes, at the time, there was no PHP7 support. I will submit a package hopefully soon.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

An upload of php-gearman to xenial-proposed has been rejected from the upload queue for the following reason: "package was stuck in the NEW queue for several years, never reviewed, xenial reaching the end of standard support.".