[pkg-php-pear] PHP8.5 transition on Debian

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi, I was planning to skip 8.5 in Debian as there is no benefit because we would have transition to 8.6 in Debian before next stable anyway. So that would put an extra strain on the maintainers of the downstream packages.

Whatever you do, just please don’t bump the epoch or mess up the versioning pretty please. I can help if there’s any problem like this, and the last time Ubuntu did something weird with versions it messed up quite lot of my work.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)

> On 7. 1. 2026, at 20:46, Renan Rodrigo <rr at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Hello, Ondřej, hope this finds you well.
> 
> I would like to ask you if you have any plans to start the php8.5 transition on Debian soon.
> We (@athos and I) would like to do the transition for the next Ubuntu release, but we understand it'd be better to do it in Debian first.
> 
> We are happy to help with the Debian side transition, as we understand that cross-collaboration would lead to the best.
> 
> If you are not interested in doing the transition now, we can start it in Ubuntu, and send Debian the patches/fixes for the eventual bugs we find in the way.
> 
> Thanks for your attention,
> 
> P.S.: I am cc-ing the php list for visibility