[Pkg-php-pecl] php-geoip update to PHP 7.0 and what to do with php-memcache?

[Sergey B Kirpichev]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:52:15AM +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> I have some time to update php-geoip to PHP 7.0
> (https://github.com/Zakay/geoip and
> https://github.com/remicollet/remirepo/blob/master/php/pecl/php-pecl-geoip/geoip-php7.patch).
> 
> Let me know if you want to do the update yourself.

Can you submit these patches upstream?

> Also what do you think should happen with php-memcache?  php-memcached
> is superior, but people clearly still use php-memcache in legacy code.
> There's an unofficial branch with PHP 7 support here:
> https://github.com/websupport-sk/pecl-memcache, but I am more inclined
> to just letting php-memcache die in peace.

I think, it can't be dropped without a proper deprecation
cycle.  Say in stretch+ (and a warning in stretch).