diff -Nru swig-3.0.8/debian/changelog swig-3.0.8/debian/changelog
--- swig-3.0.8/debian/changelog	2016-02-19 00:27:36.000000000 -0800
+++ swig-3.0.8/debian/changelog	2016-04-05 12:00:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+swig (3.0.8-0ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * d/rules: remove build-dep on php5* while SWIG does not support
+    PHP7.0 (LP: #1546823).
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Tue, 05 Apr 2016 11:53:32 -0700
+
 swig (3.0.8-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/rules: Disable PHP SWIG bindings for PHP7.0 transition
diff -Nru swig-3.0.8/debian/control swig-3.0.8/debian/control
--- swig-3.0.8/debian/control	2015-10-31 06:39:32.000000000 -0700
+++ swig-3.0.8/debian/control	2016-04-05 11:53:27.000000000 -0700
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
                guile-2.0-dev,
                libperl-dev,
                libpcre3-dev,
-               php5-cgi,
-               php5-dev,
                python-dev,
                ruby,
                ruby-dev,