a perhaps horrifying question...
Is there any way to 'forward port' php4 into Debian Lenny?
Do you know anyone who has done this? Are there packages available?
Backstory to this nightmare; we are a small company which has been
developing web applications for many years.
Most of these were developed in php4.
We do not have the resources to upgrade all of these to php5 in a
reasonable amount of time. In fact we are unlikely to be able to upgrade
most of these before the end of life of Etch. When that happens we will be
left with servers with no security updates. I understand that there are no
security updates for php4 but the server environment is more than just this
one package.
Since php4 was removed from Debian Lenny these servers would have to stay
with Etch for the foreseeable future which is not good.
As sole sysadmin here I would like to be able to upgrade servers to the
latest supported version without breaking the applications.
Even if php4 is not being maintained thats no reason not to maintain the
rest of the server!
Hoping you can help...
Thanks!
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