On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:30:16PM +0100, Oli Warner wrote: > We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/ > > - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support > period > - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-2016 > > Basically, PHP version die a lot quicker than our LTS releases... > But PHP upgrades also have backwards incompatibilities so SRUing them > through is haphazard. > > So what's the plan? Is somebody manually backporting fixes?
Just a perspective from personal experience: I can remember at least twice when forced PHP upgrades broke web site code of major customers of companies I was working for at the time and cost a great deal of lost sleep. I also remember PHP as a bug farm, but that's off topic. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
