Bug 19614

Summary:	Updated PHP7 package available?
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marc Krämer <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	php-5.6.26-1.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Marc Krämer 2016-10-18 12:13:27 CEST

Hi,
I'm wondering not to see any PHP 7 package available in MGA6 anymore. Did you plan to leave the old version??
Is it possible to have two versions of php of which to choose? Even if php 5.6 is still supported, php 7 is state of the art, so a new release should at least have the possibility to update this package if you don't want to do this automatically because of incompabilities.

Comment 1 David Walser 2016-10-18 12:38:39 CEST

Last we checked there were too many compatibility issues.  It has never been determined that we could safely move to php7.  It's too difficult to package both of them without causing problems and conflicts, and we can't maintain two of them for Mageia 6 anyway.  We'll move to PHP7 for Mageia 7.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 2 Marc Krämer 2016-10-18 12:53:41 CEST

Sorry to ask you again - but that means no php7 until end of 2018?
It is not possible to have the already built packages of php7 in testing? If we don't have the package available it is hard for developers to migrate their applications to php7.

Marc Krämer 2016-10-18 15:03:01 CEST

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX => (none)

Comment 3 David Walser 2016-10-19 12:40:16 CEST

Please don't re-open bugs like that.

Mageia 6 will have DNF and COPR support (a feature of Fedora's Koji build system, similar to Ubuntu PPA's, but with a bit more centralization), so it's possible that someone could make a PHP7 COPR for Mageia 6.

Any further questions about this should be directed to the dev mailing list.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 4 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-08-06 16:11:48 CEST

(In reply to David Walser from comment #1)
> We'll move to PHP7 for Mageia 7.

Any ETA for this? PHP 7.1 has an interesting performance boost compared to 5.6.

Comment 5 David Walser 2017-08-13 18:34:57 CEST

(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #4)
> (In reply to David Walser from comment #1)
> > We'll move to PHP7 for Mageia 7.
> 
> Any ETA for this? PHP 7.1 has an interesting performance boost compared to
> 5.6.

Unfortunately, no.  We lost both PHP maintainers during the Mageia 6 cycle.  We need a new PHP maintainer.  Oden's initial work in packaging PHP 7 should still be in SVN somewhere.

Comment 6 Frédéric "LpSolit" Buclin 2017-10-22 15:17:50 CEST

*** Bug 21916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***