On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 20:14:53 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > 2012/2/6 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>: > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 14:46:51 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > >> So I would say we are pretty safe on this front. PHP scripts still could > >> break in every possible way, but I don't think we would be able to detect > >> that easily. > >> > > Well, there'll need to be *some* way to detect them before release, > > surely? Maybe that means testing each php package individually, and > > gathering a list of which packages have received successful testing. > > The testing could be done by the individual package maintainers, but > > it'd be nice if somebody was collecting the results so we know what has > > or hasn't been tested. > > Yes, that can be done. But ... do we do that for other languages? > python? perl? > I'm pretty sure something like that was done for python. I don't think perl breaks source level compatibility to anywhere near the same extent (could be wrong, though). > Anyway I'll setup a wiki page and when you ack the php5 5.4 upload, I'll mail > the package maintainers and ask them to test their packages individually. > They can test right now with php from experimental... Cheers, Julien
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