[dev] PHPUnit 8 compat (was: Re: Preparing compatibility with PHPUnit 6)

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:

> Hi again,
>
> On  Sa 06 Jun 2020 23:25:17 CEST, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
>> I am currently looking into Horde Unit Tests and they all make  
>> severe problem as time has passed and PHPUnit has moved on to  
>> version 8.5.2 in Debian unstable.
>>
>> I understand that PHPUnit is a fast moving target, but bundling an  
>> old PHPUnit version in Horde_Test is neither an option for Debian.
>>
>> There are several options at hand:
>>
>>  * pick up PHPUnit test migration, but not to 6, but 8.
>>  * bundle PHPunit 4.8 in php-horde-test in Debian as upstream does
>>  * don't run Debian's autopkgtests on php-horde-* packages
>>
>> I guess this original idea of a script that walks over all packages  
>> and updates the test API would be a good idea. However, is keeping  
>> compatibilities with PHPUnit 4.8 really a good approach considering  
>> that we have moved on much further with PHPUnit these days?
>>
>> Currently, the php-horde* packages won't migrate to Debian testing,  
>> because of failing unit tests after upload. Any suggestions from  
>> people involved upstream?
>
> I'd be up for working on PHPUnit8 compatibility. I'd propose bumping  
> Horde_Test to compat to 8.x and dropping 4.8.x compat.
>
> I'd love to get some feedbacks on this.

The issue with doing this big of a jump in our current release code is  
that PHPUnit 8 requires PHP 7.2, which is a BC break in our  
FRAMEWORK_5_2 branch.  This would have to wait for a major version  
upgrade when we can bump the minimum required PHP version.


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