Nish, The php-apcu package is in a weird place because when Ubuntu 14.04 shipped it was simultaneously a very new package and a very old dependency. php-apc (without the u) has been around for a long time and is a key dependency of many PHP applications. PHP 5.5 broke compatibility with php-apc (due to adopting its main functionality) and php-apcu was created as a drop-in replacement for applications that depended on the rest of php-apc's functionality.
php-apcu provides a very old, simple, and well-established API with complex memory and performance roles under the hood. The version of php- apcu that got locked in when Ubuntu 14.04 shipped was very new and unstable, and every release since then is a patch release that improves stability. If you backported all the needed patches correctly to 4.0.2 you would have the current release. In short: shipping the newest available version of this package is necessary BECAUSE Ubuntu 14.04 is an LTS. It wouldn't make sense to ship anything but the current (most stable) release, but that's not to say it will be necessary to keep shipping updates to this package, the last several releases have all been orders of magnitude more stable than 4.0.2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1374892 Title: Please backport php5-apcu version 4.0.6 to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-apcu/+bug/1374892/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
