On 08.04.2016 [00:04:29 -0000], Chris wrote: > 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.
Ok, we might be able to argue/discuss that 4.0.7 is really a sequence of bugfixes relative to 4.0.2 (and 4.0.7 is what Debian ships currently). My concern is any new feature introductions, etc, which need careful examination (meaning time) to avoid regressions. > 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 Thank you very much for your clear explanation and background on the issue, I really appreciate it! -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
