@Phil, That's a lot of "shoulds" for a feature request :)
14.04 was created in 2014. As far as I can tell, php-mongodb did not exist then. As you pointed out, php-mongo was renamed to php-mongodb. Except that https://docs.mongodb.com/ecosystem/drivers/php/ does not clearly indicate it's a rename, but an evolution of the PECL package. If it was strictly a rename, wouldn't the older driver have stopped seeing development at some point (I see a release in April of this year on the PECL page). I never said the PECL driver only works with PHP7, I said "the way the packaging works (rather intentionally afaict), it is explicitly only designed to work with PHP7+.". I believe we only have the appropriate build dependencies available in 16.04 and on. Additionally, I did mean to say earlier that the dependencies missing in 14.04 were build dependencies (libbson, libmongoc). Those are now embedded in the library, it seems, so they are less of a concern, however in a quick test, neither the 16.04 or 16.10 versions of php- mongodb build in 14.04, due to missing dependencies. This implies there is more work than a simple backport, to me. Finally, afaict, "Laravel PHP framework" is not an Ubuntu package. There are many older package versions (or newer packages not packaged at all) in Trusty. I think that's expected, given that it's been 2 years since release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579815 Title: Please "duplicate" as php5-mongodb to trusty-universe To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-mongodb/+bug/1579815/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
