I sorted it out.
I created a sid lxc container, installed just php-pear and noticed no
php5 package was installed and pear was working with no error.
I installed horde in the container.
I took note of the php packages that were installed and installed them
on the machine that was having problems with pear.
No more pear errors but I've found a couple of related problems to the
transition.
horde was not working for an incompatibility issue in php-text-wiki.
/usr/share/php/Text/Wiki.php suffer from
New objects cannot be assigned by reference
http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php
and I had to change all instances of
=& new
to
= new
Then I got to fix
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/lib/php/20151012/http.so' - /usr/lib/php/20151012/http.so:
undefined symbol: php_resource_factory_handle_ctor in Unknown on line 0
Installing
php-propro
and
php-raphf
fixed the problem
Finally I removed all php5 packages and everything was still working.
There are some actual problem in the php5 -> php7 transition and while a
fresh install of php7 works, coming from php5 may not.
Once I got horde working on that box I didn't install any other php
package but upgrades took in php7 even when it was not installed and
this most probably caused the problem.
Unless you help me to track down the "transitioning" issue I can't help
any further on this. At least I solved *my* problem and I documented how.
I hope it helps to find the issue.
I'll issue other 2 separate bug reports for php-common
(/usr/lib/php/sessionclean) and php-text-wiki
(/usr/share/php/Text/Wiki.php) shortly.
thanks
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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it
