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php7.0 package

  1. Bug #1686237
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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote : [SRU] microrelease exception for src:php7.0 (7.0.18)

There have been a number of microreleases of PHP 7.0 upstream since the last update to Xenial (which corresponded to the merge in Zesty). As we have re-merged again in Artful, 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:

 - 7.0.18: 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 which will be fixed by updating to a newer upstream version: LP: #1674892.