[php-maint] Please check PHP 5.4 compatibility in your package(s)

[Andrew McMillan]

Hey - I'd just like to thank you guys for this heads-up.  This is an
awesome level of service :-)

Regards,
					Andrew.

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 10:00 +0100, Debian PHP Packagers wrote:
> Dear Andrew McMillan,
> 
> as you might have read in the debian-devel-announce, we are preparing
> PHP 5.4 to enter unstable.  As you maintain package(s) using PHP, it
> would greatly help us (the Debian PHP maintainers) if you can test
> compatibility of your package(s) with PHP 5.4 which is currently in
> the experimental suite.  After testing please report success (or
> failures which obviously will need fixing) to the wiki page we have
> prepared for tracking the transition:
> 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/PHP/54Transition
> 
> List of packages maintained by you:
> 
>   davical
> 
> To test your package with PHP 5.4 from experimental you need to add
> 
>   deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian experimental main
> 
> to your /etc/apt/sources.lists and add
> 
>   Package: php5*
>   Pin: release n=experimental
>   Pin-Priority: 500
> 
>   Package: libapache2-mod-php5*
>   Pin: release n=experimental
>   Pin-Priority: 500
> 
>   Package: php-pear
>   Pin: release n=experimental
>   Pin-Priority: 500
> 
> to your /etc/apt/preferences file.
> 
> Note: Some of you already might know that there are some bugs related
>       to PHP 5.4, because there is a open bug.  In that case I am
>       sorry that I am mailing you again, but I thought it would be
>       good if you were informed about the wiki page, where you can
>       report the status of whole package and not just FTBFS or PHP
>       Lint errors.
> 
> Thanks, 
> --
> Ondrej Sury <ondrej at debian.org>
>