Hey fellow developers, we (as in pkg-php-* teams) been working on PHP 5.x to PHP 7.0 transition for some while and I think it's time to start a MBF to get this sorted out before the next freeze.
There are several main things to be done: 1. You need to change all dependencies from php5-<foo> to php-<foo> 1a) internal PHP extensions built from src:php7.0 are solved by php-<foo> depending on default PHP version 1b) external PHP extensions (from PECL) are named just php-<foo> to allow binNMUs when we bump PHP major or minor version NOTE: every extension package list php-<ext1>, php-<ext2>, php-<ext3> in Provides, if you require specific extension, please try to depend on that specific extension. Here I would strongly recommend using pkg-php-tools if you can, as the simple rebuild could fix your package to be compatible with new PHP packaging. 2. You need to check that the PHP code inside your package is compatible with PHP 7.0 - you can do that now in unstable with existing packages - binary packages from src:php5 and src:php7.0 are coinstallable, so you can do `apt-get install php5-fpm php-fpm` and configure your web server correctly to use either PHP 7.0 or PHP 5.6. Everybody depending on PHP is also welcome to join our mailing lists where we discussed the changes that have been done (that is pkg-php-main for interpreter packaging, pkg-php-pecl for PHP extensions and pkg-php-pear for PEAR modules). I am also suggesting that instead of packaging PECL or PEAR stuff on your own, you are welcome to join the packaging teams and help others with packaging and be helped with your packages. Some of the really old and upstream-orphaned code will have to be dropped from Debian. Please take it as a good sign to increase overall quality of PHP codebase in Debian :). And last warning - really don't depend on versioned variants of the PHP packages, that will prevent automatic transitions between PHP major.minor versions. If you really think you need to do so, please come and explain your reasons to our mailing list before you do so. Cheers, Ondrej P.S.: The new packaging structure allows multiple versions of PHP to happily coexist, but this won't be supported from within a stable Debian release, but it allows us (the PHP team can't wait for bikeshed repos) and external package providers to host that externally -> you can find some of the work in https://packages.sury.org/php/ for Debian jessie and ppa:ondrej/php for Ubuntu (trusty and higher). dd-list follows: Alan Boudreault <aboudrea...@mapgears.com> mapserver (U) Alessandro De Zorzi <l...@nonlontano.it> phamm (U) php-fpdf Alex Denvir <cold...@blueyonder.co.uk> libexpect-php5 Alexander Wirt <formo...@debian.org> icinga-web (U) nagios3 (U) nagvis (U) Anders Waananen <waana...@nbi.dk> nordugrid-arc (U) Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> gdcm (U) stacks (U) Andrew McMillan <a...@debian.org> awl (U) davical (U) Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> drush Antonio Ospite <a...@ao2.it> tweeper Bas Couwenberg <sebas...@debian.org> geos (U) mapserver (U) Bdale Garbee 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