Re: PHP 5.4 in Debian Backports
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:38, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
> * Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> [2012-03-27 10:25:08 CEST]:
>> PHP packaging team has uploaded (now fixed) PHP 5.4 version to
>> backports in effort to make the upgrade to next stable as smooth as
>> possible, e.g. we want to allow people to test their code with PHP 5.4
>> before the upgrade.
>>
>> This upload is binary incompatible with binary modules compiled
>> against PHP 5.3. We (which mainly means me) are willing to provide
>> backports also to the most used modules in the PHP. Feel free to ping
>> me or the rest of the team (pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org)
>> with requests to backport reverse dependencies of PHP (APC? XDebug?
>> XCache?)
>
> From working on stable RC bug list I noticed a fair amount of packages
> that had a RC bug because they don't work with php 5.4. What's the plan
> to deal with those, is it planned to get them fixed for squeeze too, or
> do you accept the incompatibility and just wait for people to tell you
> that they need it and then backport those packages, too?
I would like to take this approach... Most of the binary modules are low impact
(maybe with the exception of those three listed above...)
> From what I seem to remember those weren't just modules but also application
> packages?
It's this list and there weren't really any serious incompatibility in
application packages:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=php54;users=pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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