Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 08:55:42 +0200 From: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PHP version retirement Message-ID: <20190812065542.GA57098@lyxys.ka.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1u7F6rUFPnySXDPTQ9cvaU2WL1Y-3om84XxougPO--b6w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CF1F28D6-1072-4BE6-B124-A97DE43FA4E6@waschbuesch.de> <64faf143-bae3-378c-3ee2-b196c2ea4111@astart.com> <16731AF5-68E9-4E41-8D21-CF5917BE32A4@waschbuesch.de> <20190810231216.GA23293@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <CD11C7D8-DC57-4402-848C-06BBAD220D8B@waschbuesch.de> <20190811213145.GJ47196@lyxys.ka.sub.org> <B856AF82-6945-4E7C-90D3-BEED414AEDE6@waschbuesch.de> <CAN6yY1u7F6rUFPnySXDPTQ9cvaU2WL1Y-3om84XxougPO--b6w@mail.gmail.com>
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* Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> [190812 01:50]: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 4:23 PM Martin Waschbüsch <martin@waschbuesch.de> > wrote: >>> Am 11.08.2019 um 23:31 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org>: >>> * Martin Waschbüsch <martin@waschbuesch.de> [190811 20:41]: >>>> [..] >>>>> You could also have used the quarterly branch, which keeps software till >>>>> the end of the quarter. In the case of php 5.6 it would have given you >>>>> time until March 31st, and would have included version 5.6.40 >>>> 5.6.40 never made it into the main ports tree. Are you sure it was >> available in the quarterly snapshot? >>> I am sure. You can check for yourself using the svnweb interface at the >>> FreeBSD website; php 5.6.40 was added to the 2019Q1 branch on Jan 26th >> Thanks, Wolfgang, for pointing that out. >> Up to now I always thought of quarterly as a static snapshot of the main >> ports tree made at a given point in time. No, quarterly gets security fixes, just no "feature updates". That's why we use it in production, so we have to handle potentially breaking changes only once a quarter. > OK. Where did 5.6.40 come from? > I just looked at the ports repo and it was NEVER committed there. The very > last commit to ports/head/lang/php56 was 5.6.39. Whil it has no impact on > me, I find it very odd to find a package that never existed in ports. That > makes it impossible for me to access the source for this package and > recreate it for any reason. My gut feeling is that this is broken and > should never happen. It was committed on the 2019Q1 branch only, because HEAD didn't have the php56 port anymore at that time. Wolfgang
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