diff -Nru php-defaults-35/debian/changelog php-defaults-35ubuntu1/debian/changelog
--- php-defaults-35/debian/changelog	2016-03-01 07:28:59.000000000 -0800
+++ php-defaults-35ubuntu1/debian/changelog	2016-03-14 18:08:49.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+php-defaults (35ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * Update to Ubuntu version of hard dependencies, which have been or
+    will be rebuilt for PHP7.0 (LP: #1553419). 
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Mon, 14 Mar 2016 18:06:09 -0700
+
 php-defaults (35) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Simplify the package versions to use only SUPPORTED_VERSION for common
diff -Nru php-defaults-35/debian/control php-defaults-35ubuntu1/debian/control
--- php-defaults-35/debian/control	2016-03-01 07:28:59.000000000 -0800
+++ php-defaults-35ubuntu1/debian/control	2016-03-14 18:06:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -131,26 +131,26 @@
 Depends: psmisc (>= 22.15-1~),
          sed (>= 4.1.1-1),
          ${misc:Depends}
-Breaks: php-amqp (<< 1.7.0~alpha2-4~),
-        php-apcu (<< 5.1.3+4.0.10-2~),
+Breaks: php-amqp (<< 1.7.0~alpha2-3~),
+        php-apcu (<< 5.1.3+4.0.10-1~),
         php-apcu-bc (<< 1.0.3-2~),
-        php-ast (<< 0.1.1-2~),
+        php-ast (<< 0.1.1-1~),
         php-geoip (<< 1.1.0-4~),
         php-gmagick (<< 2.0.1~rc3+1.1.7~rc3-2~),
         php-igbinary (<< 1.2.1-10-ge0e66b9+1.2.1-2~),
         php-imagick (<< 3.4.0~rc6-2~),
         php-memcache (<< 3.0.9~20151130.fdbd46b-2~),
-        php-memcached (<< 2.2.0-95-g6ace07d+2.2.0-2~),
+        php-memcached (<< 2.2.0-95-ge573a6e+2.2.0-2~),
         php-mongodb (<< 1.1.2-3~),
         php-msgpack (<< 2.0.0+0.5.7-2~),
         php-radius (<< 1.4.0~b1-2~),
         php-redis (<< 2.2.7-355-g799e0bc+2.2.7-4~),
-        php-rrd (<< 2.0.0+1.1.3-4~),
+        php-rrd (<< 2.0.0+1.1.3-3~),
         php-smbclient (<< 0.8.0~rc1-2~),
-        php-ssh2 (<< 0.12-39-g3dfe336+0.12-2~),
+        php-ssh2 (<< 0.12-39-g3dfe336+0.12-1~),
         php-uploadprogress (<< 1.0.3.1-4-g95d8a0f-2~),
-        php-uuid (<< 1.0.4-2~),
-        php-xdebug (<< 2.4.0~rc4-2~),
+        php-uuid (<< 1.0.4-1~),
+        php-xdebug (<< 2.4.0~rc4-1~),
         php-zmq (<< 1.1.3-3~),
         php5.6-common (<< 5.6.18+dfsg-10~),
         php5.6-json (<< 1.3.9-2~),