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php5 package

  1. Bug #225600
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 225600

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Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden) wrote :

Nitro322:

Since this behaviour is what upstream provided in PHP 5.2.4, changing that in an LTS release is probably not all that safe (who knows how many PHP applications running on existing 8.04 LTS servers might depend on it?). Whether upstream *intended* that behaviour or not is not really the issue at this late date. It is what they provided.

However, it would be reasonable, IMO, to get a newer release of PHP into hardy-backports, so that those who consciously *decide* to use -backports (and so decide to deal with any issues resulting from such upgraded versions of software on their server(s)) can easily use a newer version of PHP which does not have this particular behaviour.

Please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more info, especially the "How to Request new Packages", "How to Help" and "Backport Process" sections.

Are you willing and able to backport, or at least to help backport, a new version of PHP to Hardy in this way?