So far the ordering of alias packages with the same name was undefined
so the actual order was determined by implementation of the sorting
algorithm in PHP. As of PHP8 sort is stable by default which changes the
outcome in some of our test cases.
With the fully defined total order the order can longer change depending
on sorting algorithm used and remains the same across PHP versions.
The only type of request job remaining was "install" which is really a
root requirement. The only other kind of input for the solver is now a
set of fixed packages.
Rules have been updated to account for only two kinds of former job
reason: FIXED or ROOT_REQUIRE. The job property has always been
redundant and has been removed, since reasonData suffices.
Problem reasons are always rules, so the unnecessary wrapping in an
array has been removed.
We now only ever generate a single rule per root require or fixed
package, so there is no need for the solver to special handle disabling
"jobs" anymore, the rule can just be disabled as usual.
For consistency special handling of rules for jobs in problems has been
integrated into the rule class like all other rule reasons. As part of
this change the error message for root requirements has been improved a
bit to make it clearer where the package installation request came from.
The word job has also been removed from operations, which are called
operations, not jobs.
Jordi Boggiano
megubyte
Nils Adermann
Michael Telgmann