diff -Nru swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/changelog swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/changelog
--- swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/changelog	2015-12-10 19:06:07.000000000 +0000
+++ swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/changelog	2016-04-06 00:20:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+swig2.0 (2.0.12-1ubuntu4) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * debian/rules: Disable PHP SWIG bindings for PHP7.0 transition
+    (LP: #1546823).
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:01:14 -0700
+
 swig2.0 (2.0.12-1ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/control: Remove unversioned packages taken over by newer swig.
diff -Nru swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/control swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/control
--- swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/control	2015-12-10 19:04:56.000000000 +0000
+++ swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/control	2016-04-06 00:20:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
                guile-2.0-dev,
                libperl-dev,
                libpcre3-dev,
-               php5-cgi,
-               php5-dev,
                python-dev,
                python3-dev,
                ruby,
diff -Nru swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/rules swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/rules
--- swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/rules	2014-06-18 10:18:52.000000000 +0000
+++ swig2.0-2.0.12/debian/rules	2016-04-06 00:20:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@
   MAKEOPTS += skip-chicken=true
 endif
 
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += --without-php
+MAKEOPTS += skip-php=true
+
 configure-stamp: $(QUILT_STAMPFN)
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_autoreconf ./autogen.sh