Re: a perhaps horrifying question...
Steve Wray schrieb am Friday, den 03. April 2009:
> 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.
You mean the ~5 years php5 is existing were not enough?
Such a forward will not happen within backports.org.
But forward porting should be possible with a little bit knowledge of php and
debian packages.
Alex - ftpmaster
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