Comment 0 for bug 1931315

Please drop the Laravel eco-system from impish. This includes the following binary packages:

      php-illuminate-auth - Illuminate Auth library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-broadcasting - Illuminate Broadcasting library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-bus - Illuminate Bus library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-cache - Illuminate Cache library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-config - Illuminate Config library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-console - Illuminate Console library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-container - Illuminate Container library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-contracts - Illuminate Contracts library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-cookie - Illuminate Cookie library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-database - Illuminate Database library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-encryption - Illuminate Encryption library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-events - Illuminate Events library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-filesystem - Illuminate Filesystem library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-hashing - Illuminate Hashing library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-http - Illuminate Http library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-log - Illuminate Log library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-mail - Illuminate Mail library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-notifications - Illuminate Notifications library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-pagination - Illuminate Pagination library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-pipeline - Illuminate Pipeline library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-queue - Illuminate Queue library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-redis - Illuminate Redis library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-routing - Illuminate Routing library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-session - Illuminate Session library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-support - Illuminate Support library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-translation - Illuminate Translation library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-validation - Illuminate Validation library component for PHP
      php-illuminate-view - Illuminate View library component for PHP
      php-laravel-framework - web application framework for PHP
      php-laravel-lumen-framework - micro-framework for building web applications in PHP
      movim

[Discussion]
Movim is a distributed social network built on XMPP.

Laravel is a PHP-based, commercially-supported web framework that builds atop the Symfony web framework, providing a number of "1st-party" plugins for billing, auth, browser testing, etc.

Laravel 6.20 was introduced in Debian ubuntu in Dec 2020, and auto-sync'd into Ubuntu hirsute at that time. (Current upstream is releasing Laravel 8.45, however 6.x is their LTS series, with security support through Sep. 2022.)

For Ubuntu impish we are introducing PHP 8.0, and updating a number of PHP ecosystem pieces to their PHP 8 versions. Technically, Laravel 6.20 indicates support for PHP 8.0 itself (https://github.com/laravel/framework/commit/897a47136c2da2fdc7e19cee89c2f3a514192dee), however Laravel 6.20 appears to not be compatible with some of the other ecosystem pieces being introduced, and looks like significant work will be needed to get it transitioned.

Upstream recommends to their new users to install Laravel via their Docker container [https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/installation]. Experienced users are directed to use PHP's package manager, 'composer', to install Laravel's PHP components from the web. 3rd party install guides found via google also walk users through using composer to install laravel, rather than install via apt. In general it appears users are relying on an Ubuntu LTS for the webserver and the PHP runtime, but prefer latest Laravel in order to get up-to-date security fixes and features.

Debian's PopCon gives the php-laravel-framework and related components a 0.00% rating, with only 7 people having installed it (of which only 2 people used it recently). We do not have any data suggesting Ubuntu's install base is significantly different from Debian's.

Given the above, it seems most helpful for end users to focus efforts on stabilizing the base PHP 8.0 components, and drop Laravel from the archive for Impish. Since Laravel was only just introduced in hirsute, and since the popcon numbers suggest few are using it yet, it's unlikely this change will have a notable impact to users.