Bug 764908 – www-apps/davical-1.1.9.3 fails tests with >=dev-lang/php-8

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2021-01-11 07:22:51 UTC]

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: www-apps/davical-1.1.9.3 fails tests.
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: ci)

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-01-11 07:22:53 UTC]

Created attachment 682336 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2021-01-11 07:22:54 UTC]

Possible context of error(s):

PHP Fatal error:  Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is no longer supported in inc/check_UTF8.php on line 70

[Comment 3 Till Schäfer 2021-01-11 11:35:40 UTC]

Fails for PHP>=8

[Comment 4 Larry the Git Cow 2021-01-15 12:13:35 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3cd8ae038471798b36790a8e71f674aa8cfd4058

commit 3cd8ae038471798b36790a8e71f674aa8cfd4058
Author:     Till Schäfer <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2021-01-11 12:26:53 +0000
Commit:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2021-01-15 12:13:29 +0000

    www-apps/davical: rdepend on <dev-lang/php-8
    
    >=dev-lang/php-8 is incompatible with davical
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/764908
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.12, Repoman-3.0.2
    Signed-off-by: Till Schäfer <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19030
    Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>

 www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.9.3.ebuild | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[Comment 5 Till Schäfer 2021-02-26 09:51:16 UTC]

upstream provides a patch for php-8 compatibility now (not yet released): https://gitlab.com/davical-project/davical/-/merge_requests/77

[Comment 6 Larry the Git Cow 2021-03-01 08:26:08 UTC]

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=04b1b056deb43fe70a81c54c1bb7c4feb976b1fc

commit 04b1b056deb43fe70a81c54c1bb7c4feb976b1fc
Author:     Till Schäfer <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2021-02-26 08:39:35 +0000
Commit:     Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2021-03-01 08:25:56 +0000

    www-apps/davical: support php8
    
    add upstream patch for php8 compatibility
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/764908
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.13, Repoman-3.0.2
    Signed-off-by: Till Schäfer <[e-mail]>
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/19664
    Signed-off-by: Joonas Niilola <[e-mail]>

 www-apps/davical/davical-1.1.9.3-r1.ebuild         | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 .../files/davical-1.1.9.3-php8_compatibility.patch | 58 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 131 insertions(+)