Hi all that are checking their packages against php7.0, On 12-01-16 14:53, Ondřej Surý wrote: > PHP 7.0 has landed in unstable with substantial changes to the > packaging: > > 1. Every package built from src:phpMAJOR.MINOR now include > phpMAJOR.MINOR in the name, so f.e. php5-fpm is now php7.0-fpm. > > 2. Accompanying src:php-defaults builds 1:1 mapping to a default > MAJOR.MINOR version, e.g. php-fpm depends on php7.0-fpm. When > you specify a dependency, please use the generic name, unless you > absolutely know that won't work for you. > > 3. Every path in the system has been changed to a versioned, e.g. > /etc/php5/cli is now /etc/php/7.0/cli > > 4. dh_php5 is now dh_php > > 5. php-pear is not built from independent source package. > > 6. master-7.0 branches of several extensions (php-apcu, xdebug, > php-apcu-bc) can be used as a template how to change the PHP > extension packaging. It's mostly cut&paste since the d/rules > tries to figure-out most of the variables from debian/ directory. > > 7. pkg-php-tools package is still WIP > > 8. PHP 7.0 has changed extension API, so most-if-not-all extensions > need work from upstream to be compatible with PHP 7.0. > > 9. We expect to ship next Debian release (stretch) only with PHP > 7.0, that means that all packages needs to be made compatible > with PHP 7.0. Fortunately the PHP 7.0 is mostly compatible with > properly maintained software. However some extensions has been > deprecated (f.e. mysql) and thus old unmaintained software will > stop working and it will have to be either patched or removed > from stable Debian. > > a. I have managed to make src:php5 coinstallable with src:php7.0, > the change was really small and it will be part of next p-u or > s-u. This will leave sysadmins the chance to properly migrate > their configurations. > > b. Please test your PHP packages with new PHP 7.0, report the > breakages to upstream as soon as possible, so we can make the > next Debian stable release even better. What I was missing from this list of changes is that multiple packages have now been split off from the php package. For me, php-xml and php-mbstring are new dependencies for my package. It took me a while to figure that out (and caused an unnecessary bug against php7.0). Paul
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