Re: Swtich default PHP to 5.6.

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 05:56:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:29:30AM +0900, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
> > In message <20150822101054.GA3999%asim.lip6.fr@localhost>
> > 	on Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:10:54 +0200,
> > 	Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >> I would change default version of PHP to 5.6.
> > >> 
> > >> * PHP 5.4 is already security support phase and it will become EOL on
> > >>   14th September 2015.
> > >> * PHP 5.5 is already security support phase since 10th July 2015.
> > >>   (and it will become EOL on 10th Jul 2016.)
> > >> * PHP 5.6 is in active support phase now.
> > >> 
> > >> Is there any comments?

Please do.

> > > 
> > > Are all packages working with php 5.6 at this time ?
> > Maybe.
> > 
> > > In the past, it took some time to get all existing applications converted
> > > to the php version ...
> > PHP_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED should be set properly.
> 
> The problem then would be that you end up with unusable prebuilt binary
> packages, as some will requires php 5.6 and other 5.5

Only if you have things depending on PHP without properly using the
naming scheme. Which likely would classify as a bug on its own.

Joerg