[SRU] microrelease exception for src:php7.0 (7.0.15)

[Nish Aravamudan]

There have been a number of microreleases of PHP 7.0 upstream since the last update to Xenial (which corresponded to the merge in Yakkety). Ase we have re-merged again in Zesty, it feels appropriate to provide another MRE update to php7.0. A number of critical security and bug-fixes are present in each 7.0.x. Rather than backporting individual patches (e.g., Bug # 1569509), I believe it makes significantly more sense to follow the upstream 7.0.x. Upstream PHP is demonstrating an improved approach of bugfixes only in 7.0.x:

 - 7.0.15: http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

The upstream CI is at: https://travis-ci.org/php/php-src and is run regularly.

Our php7.0 source package has autopkgtests for the 4 SAPIs, mod-php, cgi, fpm and cli. We have also updated the packing to run the source tests during the build itself.

I do not believe there is a firm statement from upstream on API/ABI stability, but the general approach seems to be a BC-break would result in 7.1.0.

Additionally for this SRU, there is (at least) one bug fixed upstream that was specifically introduce by the prior SRU (to 7.0.13) which will be fixed by updating to a newer upstream version: LP: #1658289.

I have also discussed this on IRC with the security team for coordinating the next security update of php7.0.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

17.04 now has 7.0.15-1ubuntu1.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Nish, or anyone else affected,

Accepted php7.0 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php7.0/7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Nish, or anyone else affected,

Accepted php7.0 into yakkety-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php7.0/7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

Tested in containers upgrades from x and y to x-p and y-p. Both went fine. Tested sample scripts in both environments without regression.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for php7.0 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package php7.0 - 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.10.1

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php7.0 (7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.10.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - LP: #1663405
    - Refresh patches for new upstream release.
  * debian/patches/0048-Fix-pdo_pgsql.patch: Fixed #73959 - lastInsertId
    fails to throw an exception in pdsql. Thanks to andrewnester
    <email address hidden>. Closes LP: #1658289.

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:44:43 -0800

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package php7.0 - 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

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php7.0 (7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
    - LP: #1663405
    - Refresh patches for new upstream release.
  * debian/patches/0050-Fix-pdo_pgsql.patch: Fixed #73959 - lastInsertId
    fails to throw an exception in pdsql. Thanks to andrewnester
    <email address hidden>. Closes LP: #1658289.

 -- Nishanth Aravamudan <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:53:34 -0800