[php-maint] Transition to PHP 5.6

[Lior Kaplan]

Just to have all the other members on board:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745603

Kaplan


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In general this sounds good, but I don't think we're in a rush. We could
> do the testing in experimental during the beta phase, and transition after
> the official release in June. Unlike the 5.3 -> 5.4 , this transition
> shouldn't be too painful (famous last words? (: ). I also guess will have
> to give some extensions some time to catch up with 5.6 features...
>
> Kaplan
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:
>
>> Since 5.6 hit beta I think we can start to prepare transition to PHP 5.6
>> in unstable.
>>
>> Basically that means we should recompile our reverse build depends
>> against version in experimental and see what happens :).
>>
>> Since we are not very deep in the release cycle I would suggest to be
>> little bit more aggressive and upload to unstable as soon as we know
>> that at least 90% of the modules works with PHP 5.6. (And we have ack
>> from release team.)
>>
>> Thougts?
>>
>> O.
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