xdebug cannot be installed because the base image has been updated to php8.

[strausmann]

Describe the bug

When updating /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini in the directory used for xdebug configuration, the /etc/php/7.4 directory can no longer be found. The reason for this is the update of the Gitpod base image to PHP 8.

gitpod-laravel-starter/.gitpod.Dockerfile

Line 26 in a26165e

&& sudo bash -c "echo -e '\nzend_extension = /usr/lib/php/20190902/xdebug.so\n[XDebug]\nxdebug.client_host = 127.0.0.1\nxdebug.client_port = 9009\nxdebug.log = /var/log/xdebug.log\nxdebug.mode = debug\nxdebug.start_with_request = trigger\n' >> /etc/php/7.4/apache2/php.ini" \

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Steps to reproduce

After adapting the .gitpod.Dockerfile to your own needs, e.g. updating the root CAs, GitPod cannot build a working Docker image.
If you leave the .gitpod.Dockerfile unchanged, the existing Docker image can be successfully loaded from the GitPod registry.

Expected behavior

Additional information

[apolopena]

Thanks for pointing this out.

[apolopena]

Until php 7.4 reaches end of life or at the very least the php 8 adoption rate exceeds that of php 7.4, php7.4 must still be supported by this software. Dynamically (via starter.ini) supporting different version of php introduces complexities I would rather not address however such is the nature of software engineering.

This fix will take some time as I will be adding support for php_version (either gitpod_latest or 7.4.*) in starter.ini.

[apolopena]

This issue blocks the entire project as the workspace image fails to build.
This issue depends on feature #156