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

[Ondřej Surý]

I don’t mind doing the transition, I have the engine and the PECL extensions already prepared. So, it is mostly the downstream packages I am worried about.

We can also do something in the middle… I can upload just everything I have to experimental.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)

> On 7. 1. 2026, at 22:16, David Prévot <david at tilapin.org> wrote:
> 
> 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