Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

Perhaps apt or some other tool should warn for installed packages that are no longer available from any archive. It'd catch such 'orphaned' packages. -- Olaf

Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

I argue that this is a security risk. An unknowing user who upgrades to Stretch would be happy that his php code continues to run... but he suddenly is running on unsupported software. And any future security updates to php will be silently ignored by his system. By upgrading to Stretch he

Bug#860337: [php-maint] Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

There's 'php' meta package starting from stretch that roughly equals to default-mysql-server. O. -- Ondřej Surý Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, fast DNS(SEC) resolver Vše

Bug#860337: [php-maint] Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

Hi Kienan, automatic upgrade from php5 to php7.0 is not a very good idea as there were many backwards incompatible changes. The missing "automatic" upgrade path is deliberate (together with fact that php5 continues to be usable). I will provide some text to the release notes. Cheers, --

Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

Hello, for a little bit of additional information, the mysql to mariadb transition decided to use a meta-package called default-mysql-server to provide a path for the transition during the upgrade. Since php5 and php7 have a good number of differences, it might be desirable to have some kind of

Bug#860337: php7.0: No transition path from php5 to php7.0 when upgrading to stretch

Package: php7.0 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When upgrading from jessie to stretch, there are no packages proposed for php7.0 when php5 is installed. php7.0 and any other packages need to be installed manually afterwards. The php5 are not marked for auto-removal and php5 continues to