Dapper Backports

  1. Bug #78771
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 78771

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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.