Comment 29 for bug 397721

The Debian PHP maint have previously stated that they have either no or only a little interest in adding php-fpm to Debian. There is no vision or leadership from the Debian side which embraces the fpm sapi. Which is a shame as it is already a very popular sapi.

Therefore if canoical wants this (following php-5.4 and later), they really will have to take the initiative themselves. Its also reasonable to argue that ubuntu should remain close to the debian php sources. However as fpm is a seperate sapi, those code shouldnt be touching the debian package code. Even with fpm it should still merge together pretty easily. Debian can then follow canoical afterwards and merge it back up to Debian.

Canoical should wait until the official PHP 5.4 Release, and re-review the situation at that time.