[php-maint] PHP5 transition
Luk Claes
luk at debian.org
Sun Feb 7 16:32:35 UTC 2010
Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We, as in the PHP maintainers, would like to upload PHP 5.3 to unstable.
>
> The upload requires that every package that ships a php extension be binNMUed
> (this would normally be detected by packages becoming uninstallable because
> the old phpapi- won't be provided, but see below).
>
> I will be filing bug reports against packages shipping a php extension but not
> properly depending on phpapi-*. A lintian check will also follow.
> Packages building php extensions *must* depend on phpapi-* alone (some
> packages depend on php5-* | phpapi-* which is incorrect too -- even the
> packages from src:php5 started to do that, but will be fixed on the next upload
> too).
>
> The packages have already been uploaded to experimental. Please let us know
> when we can upload to unstable.
Go :-)
Cheers
Luk
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