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

[David Prévot]

Hi,

On 1/7/26 21:41, Ondřej Surý 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.

As a downstream package maintainer, I believe there would still be a 
benefit for such a transition in Debian. Skipping a version leads to a 
bigger more disruptive transition in the end, rather than two smaller 
transitions.

With the current timeline of PHP releases close to the Debian freeze, 
we’ve been handling a big (and sometimes messy) transition in a short 
time frame during the last release cycles. It would be nice to avoid that.

On the other hand, I understand it can also means more work for the PHP 
maintainers to handle such transitions more often, so I’ll leave the 
last word to you anyway.

Regards,

taffit