[php-maint] Backport requirements exception for some packages (php5)

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi,

we were discussing in the PHP maint group that we would like to provide
backported version of latest PHP patch release (e.g. 5.4.4 -> 5.4.21) in
the Debian backports.

This is currently impossible because there's a requirement to have a
version in the testing first, and we have already bumped minor version
in unstable (5.4 -> 5.5) and there's always an ABI change between PHP
minor release.

Would it be possible to get an exception from this rule, so we can
provide latest same-branch-upstream PHP while packaging the latest
upstream (5.5+) in the Debian unstable?

We really don't want to jump through hoops by using experimental, or
t-p-u, but it would help the whole ecosystem by allowing this in the
backports.

O.
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