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

[Renan Rodrigo]

Thanks for the reply.

That's fine then - we can evaluate doing it our side, no problem.
About the bad decisions made in the past, I am aware of those... and not
willing to mess anything up, be sure.

We'll keep in touch (:

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:

> 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
> --
> Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
>
> > On 7. 1. 2026, at 20:46, Renan Rodrigo <rr at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 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
>
>
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