PHP version dependency

I am running Icinga2 on a Debian server - details see below.

Even though IcingaWeb2 shows it is running with PHP 8.0.17, there is still a dependency for the php7.4-common and php7.4-json packages, which I tried to uninstall, but this would uninstall icinga as well:

aptitude why php7.4-common
i   icingaweb2            Hängt ab von icingaweb2-common (= 2.10.1-1.stretch)
i A icingaweb2-common     Hängt ab von icinga-php-thirdparty (>= 0.10.0)     
i A icinga-php-thirdparty Hängt ab von php-sockets                           
i A php7.4-common         Liefert      php-sockets

And if I try to remove the package:

apt-get remove php7.4-common
Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
  icinga-php-library icinga-php-thirdparty icingacli icingaweb2 icingaweb2-common icingaweb2-module-doc
  icingaweb2-module-monitoring php7.4-common php7.4-json

(The same output is with php7.4-json)

Actually I have no PHP 7.4 installed and no other php7.4-… packages are on my system. How can I remove the two php7.4- packages without removing icingaweb2?

  • Icinga Web 2 version: 2.10.1
  • Used modules and their versions (System - About): monitoring 2.10.1
  • Web browser used: Firefox
  • Icinga 2 version used (icinga2 --version): r2.13.3-1
  • PHP version used (php --version): 8.0.17
  • Server operating system and version: Debian 9 (stretch)
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Hello @Adspectus!

Are you sure?

Best,
A/K

Why not?

$ cat /etc/debian_version 
9.13

Well, you have PHP 8, PHP 7.4, …

PHP 8, yes. What is your point here?

I do not have PHP 7 installed, except for the 2 packages which I can’t uninstall because that would uninstall icingaweb2 as well - as outlined above.

The question for me is, why does icingaweb2 has a dependency to the 2 php7.4 packages, while it is running well with PHP 8?

What does dpkg --get-selections |grep php say?

icinga-php-common			install
icinga-php-library				install
icinga-php-thirdparty			install
libapache2-mod-php8.0			install
libapache2-mod-php8.1			install
php-common					install
php-icinga					install
php-pear						install
php7.4-common				install
php7.4-json					install
php8.0						install
php8.0-bcmath				deinstall
php8.0-bz2					install
php8.0-cli					install
php8.0-common				install
php8.0-curl					install
php8.0-dev					install
php8.0-fpm					install
php8.0-gd					install
php8.0-gmp					install
php8.0-imagick				install
php8.0-intl					install
php8.0-ldap					deinstall
php8.0-mbstring				install
php8.0-mysql					install
php8.0-opcache				install
php8.0-readline				install
php8.0-soap					install
php8.0-xml					install
php8.0-zip					install
php8.1						install
php8.1-cli					install
php8.1-common				install
php8.1-curl					install
php8.1-imagick				install
php8.1-intl					install
php8.1-ldap					install
php8.1-mysql					install
php8.1-opcache				install
php8.1-readline				install
php8.1-soap					install
php8.1-xml					install
pkg-php-tools					install

And /etc/os-release?

I appreciate that someone cares about this but why are you asking things I already posted?

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
VERSION_CODENAME=stretch
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

And apt show php8.0-common?

Package: php8.0-common
Version: 8.0.18-1+0~20220421.32+debian9~1.gbp8167ed
Priority: optional
Section: php
Source: php8.0
Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <team+pkg-php@tracker.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 8.164 kB
Provides: php-calendar, php-ctype, php-exif, php-ffi, php-fileinfo, php-ftp, php-iconv, php-pdo, php-phar, php-posix, php-shmop, php-sockets, php-sysvmsg, php-sysvsem, php-sysvshm, php-tokenizer, php8.0-calendar, php8.0-ctype, php8.0-exif, php8.0-ffi, php8.0-fileinfo, php8.0-ftp, php8.0-gettext, php8.0-iconv, php8.0-pdo, php8.0-phar, php8.0-posix, php8.0-shmop, php8.0-sockets, php8.0-sysvmsg, php8.0-sysvsem, php8.0-sysvshm, php8.0-tokenizer
Depends: php-common (>= 1:81~), ucf, libc6 (>= 2.15), libffi6 (>= 3.0.10~rc8), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
Breaks: gforge-common (<< 6), php7.0-curl (<< 7.0.33-1~), php7.2-sodium (<< 7.2.12~)
Homepage: http://www.php.net/
Download-Size: 651 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: no
APT-Sources: https://packages.sury.org/php stretch/main amd64 Packages
Description: documentation, examples and common module for PHP

Strange. Not only php7.4-common, but also the already installed php8.0-common provides php-sockets.

@htriem Any ideas?

Did you find any solution for this? The same happens with Debian 11 and PHP repositories from sury.org.

No, until now, there is no solution.