Dapper Backports

php5.2 backport request

Bug #78771 reported by szasz.z
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Dapper Backports
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

new php version (5.2) comes with lots new feature:
for example:
- new memory manager for better performance
- fully JSON integration
- Input filtering
- hooks for upload process.

i use a dapper server and i would use a blending-edge packages many important (for me) programs
thx

Martijn vdS (martijn)
Changed in dapper-backports:
status: New → Confirmed
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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Needs to be tested, including the packages that need php5.

Changed in dapper-backports:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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HS-L (me-hs-l) wrote :

Is there any progress?

Is there anything I can test?

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MDKKnD (mdkknd) wrote :

As has been mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/dapper-backports/+bug/123753
There is a lot of requests for this.
I personally run a VPS with dapper, and want PHP v5.2 for some PECL packages, and as per http://www.gophp5.org/ there is a big push for a lot of Open Source PHP programs to be using 5.2 of PHP. Some projects, such as Drupal aren't supporting PHP v5.1 anymore.

The alternatives of compiling from source or pulling it from a later dist isn't exactly the best option to try on a working production server.

I can't dist-upgrade at the moment, nor should I need to when using a LTS version of Ubuntu only because the version of PHP is the one released on the 12th Jan 2006. Which is OVER 3 YEARS OLD!

Thank you.

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Heavy Rail (heavyrail) wrote :

I need this bug to be resolved badly, because I have no time to upgrade my poor old 6.06 server to 8.10.

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loeppel (loeppel) wrote :

Yes many people need this. But there is noone who can do it :(
I've managed to backport a 5.2 version, the cgi version is even running, but the mod_php5 gets a segfault, don't know why. At the moment i do not have time to debug apache2 (this is not a very easy task i think).

The main problem is the changed Packges after 6.06, there are so many changes regarding apache the APR (Apache Portable Runtime) and so on. So i used a Backport from hardy to feisty (found in a ppa, done by a paid man for a company) - but no success.

So stay tuned - maybe sometime it will work.

Anyone with Canonical comercial support here? Maybe we should ask them to provide it?

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Fionn (fbe) wrote :

+1

maintaining a somewhat decent php version should be mandatory for any LTS distro.

Changed in dapper-backports:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Khalil Seyedmehdi (kseyedmehdi) wrote :

+1 what is the status on this?!?

is it ever going to happen?

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Evan Broder (broder) wrote :

Closing the dapper-backports task due to Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) no longer being supported.

This bug is being closed by a bot. If you feel the change was made in error, please feel free to re-open the bug. However, backports requests for Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) are no longer being accepted.

Evan Broder (broder)
Changed in dapper-backports:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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