Dear maintainer(s),

I noticed that package php-doctrine-orm recommends php-deepclone, which
is not available in unstable.

It can be seen in https://packages.debian.org/sid/php-doctrine-orm :

"""
rec: php-deepclone
    Package not available
"""

I think that this recommends needs to be deleted.

In the debian/control I see:

"Recommends: ${phpcomposer:Debian-suggest}"

I am not familiar how it gets populated. I see that some symfony (I
think) php-deepclone extension might exist but I don't find any package
in Debian containing a file with "php-deepclone" in its name.

Thank you for your time,

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Hi,

That's populated by dh_phpcomposer, part of the package's build process.
It reads the composer.json file's "suggests" field from upstream sources
and guesses the corresponding Debian package names based on Debian PHP
package naming conventions.

I also can't see ext-deepcopy packaged for Debian, so I've pushed a
patch to the doctrine Salsa repo to get php-deepcopy removed from
Recommends in the next upload.

Thanks.

Hi Robin,

Le Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 12:38:54PM +0200, Robin Gustafsson a écrit :
[…]

Thanks Robin! I may not have bothered myself to actually fix such issue,
keeping it as an incentive to get php-deepcopy packaged in Debian: we
even already have a polyfill for it in the archive. Since we’re talking
about it, my first approach would have been to use a “Null” override in
debian/pkg-php-tools-overrides instead of patching composer.json, but
I’m not sure it’s actually possible.

Cheers,

taffit

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
doctrine, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1150482@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> (supplier of updated doctrine package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:45:08 +0200
Source: doctrine
Architecture: source
Version: 3.7.5+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers <pkg-php-pear@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Closes: 1150482
Changes:
 doctrine (3.7.5+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ ali ]
   * Do not require an inheritance mapping type for embeddable subclasses
 .
   [ Bob van de Vijver ]
   * fix: Remove final from expr() method
 .
   [ Nicolas Grekas ]
   * Describe EntityManagerInterface for Symfony's debug:autowiring command
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   * Remove php-deepclone from Recommends (Closes: #1150482)
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