[SRU] hoteldruid now depends on php-xml

[Marco Maria Francesco De Santis]

[Impact]

 * At runtime, hoteldruid depends on APIs exposed by php-xml, which used to be part of the core php packages.
 * The version packaged in Xenial does not express this dependency and hoteldruid needs it to work correctly (month table for example is not shown as functions utf8_encode and utf8_decode are not found).

[Test Case]

@Marco, can you provide a clear test-case?
@SRU-Team, while no test case is provided yet, the fix is trivial and clear, but I will work with Marco to provide a test-case.

[Regression Potential]

 * The chance of regression is close to nil, as we are simply expressing an actual code dependency in the packaging.

[Other Info]

 * There are probably other cases similar to this that will trickle in as migrated packages get more active testing in 16.04.
 * Debian unstable has applied the same change, and we are synced already in Yakkety.

New php packages have have split php-xml from core packages and hoteldruid needs it to work correctly (month table for example is not shown as functions utf8_encode and utf8_decode are not fuond). A dependancy on php-xml should be added to package in Xenial Xerus (the problem is already fixed in debian unstable).

[Marco Maria Francesco De Santis (drw06g-marco-52bk9e)]

Hello, to test open hoteldruid in your browser (you can use the menu entry provided by the package), if needed make the login into hoteldruid. You'll land in hoteldruid main menu where you have to click the button "View" at the end of the line: Reservations in "May" (drop-down menu with months). The page with the month view will open, in the table there will be only the first row (the one with dates) and no following rows (with rooms) will be shown, an error about missing functions will be logged by apache (either only in its log files or also on screen, dependeng on php configuration).

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Changes in debdiff in comment #1 look good, uploaded to xenial upload queue for processing by the SRU team. Thanks!

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Marco, or anyone else affected,

Accepted hoteldruid into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hoteldruid/2.1.4-1ubuntu2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Marco Maria Francesco De Santis (drw06g-marco-52bk9e)]

Hello, I've tested 2.1.4-1ubuntu2 and this bug is fixed, thank you.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hoteldruid - 2.1.4-1ubuntu2

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hoteldruid (2.1.4-1ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * debian/control: added new dependency on php-xml, previously included
    in core php packages (LP: #1580318).

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Tue, 10 May 2016 16:28:32 -0700

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for hoteldruid has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.