Comment 0 for bug 423872

This is a feature freeze exception request to integrate support for the php5-fpm packages into Ubuntu 9.10. We've been planning to support FPM alongside the other php-variants for a long time now. However getting the packaging details just right took longer than we thought to get just right.

I believe the packages are now ready. The package comes as a patch file to the existing php5 source package.

Now that we have a newer upstream version: https://code.launchpad.net/~dreamcat4/php-fpm/master, we will now be able to support php5-fpm as an ubuntu package. The new upstream version been developed and tested in a PPA for a while: https://launchpad.net/~dreamcat4/+archive/ppa

PHP-FPM is a SAPI (interface to the php core) which is an improvement upon / evolution of the php-fcgi SAPI. This project has been kicking around for several years now, in the form of a php-patch (per-site compilation). So ideally we'd prefer to do away with that as its the preferred choice for many php and web developer / administrator, and a makes good companion to nginx webserver.