[php-maint] php4/php5 status
sean finney
seanius at debian.org
Mon Nov 6 07:34:35 CET 2006
hey guys,
just to give an update on the state of things wrt php...
- a couple new versions of php4 were uploaded over this weekend,
including the "lucky 4's" release prepared by myself, the "evil 4's"
release prepared by ondrej, and the neglectful 4's release. i defer
to the changelog for the full story, but basically the lucky 4's is
what we hoped to have, the evil 4's contained a security fix, and then
based on bug reports i realized i had b0rken something in debian/rules
which had to be fixed in neglectful 4's.
- we had a version of php5 prepared to upload, but then news of php 5.2
being officially released got to me, so i decided to put off the
upload in favor of getting 5.2 in shape and ready to ship. had i
known how long it took me i would have uploaded the 5.1 upload first.
*but* i think it's absolutely critical for long-term maintainance that
we get 5.2 out the door now, because i'm sure upstream has already
jettisoned the 5.1 branch from any level of support.
i haven't uploaded php5 yet, but i believe it's in good shape to do
so. as an added benefit of our new configuration system i've
collapsed the mysqli/mysqli extensions into the same package, and
added the PDO extensions (pdo.so goes in php5-common, the rest go
in their respective extension packages).
- jmm has appended the latest security fix to my indefinitely queued
security diff.gz, and i believe he's uploaded it. however, there
won't be a DSA until 5.2 is uploaded AFAIK.
so, that's that. hopefully i'll have some time tonight to finish php5
off and send it on its way. in the meantime (and afterwards, of course)
comments are welcome and encouraged :)
sean
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