Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 13:16 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi release team and happy new year to you all,

and to you.

> the PHP updates through security team are going without any serious
> troubles, so this is not a p-u for new upstream version, but I would
> like to include attached patch in the next round of updates.
> 
> The patch is only piece missing that prevents coinstallability of
> src:php5 and src:php7.0, and I think it's quite simple.  It only
> renames /usr/bin/phar (and accompanying man page) to phar5 and uses
> update-alternatives to create symlink with priority 50 back to phar
> command.
> 
> The same mechanism is already used in src:php7.0 (with priority 70).
> 
> This would allow people upgrading from jessie to stretch to keep
> existing src:php5 packages for the time of migration to PHP 7.0.

Sounds okay to me.

Regards,

Adam

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