Pecl on Dotdeb

PHP 5.6.0 packages for Wheezy

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:45:22 +0000

On August 28th, the PHP group released the first stable version of the new major branch, PHP 5.6.0 :

The PHP Development Team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0. This new version comes with new features, some backward incompatible changes and many improvements.

The main features of PHP 5.6.0 include:

Constant scalar expressions.

Variadic functions and argument unpacking using the … operator.

Exponentiation using the ** operator.

Function and constant importing with the use keyword.

phpdbg as an interactive integrated debugger SAPI.

php://input is now reusable, and $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated.

GMP objects now support operator overloading.

File uploads larger than 2 gigabytes in size are now accepted.

For a full list of new features, you may read the new features chapter of the migration guide.

PHP 5.6.0 also introduces changes that affect compatibility:

Array keys won’t be overwritten when defining an array as a property of a class via an array literal.

json_decode() is more strict in JSON syntax parsing.

Stream wrappers now verify peer certificates and host names by default when using SSL/TLS.

GMP resources are now objects.

Mcrypt functions now require valid keys and IVs.

Dotdeb : Debian 5.0 "Lenny" support in progress...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:46:03 +0000

Dotdeb is now providing Debian packages of PHP5, MySQL 5.1 for your Debian Lenny (and still Debian Etch) LAMP servers

How to package PHP extensions by yourself

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:52:56 +0000

I often receive emails telling me that Dotdeb is a great tool, but that some useful packages are missing, such as some PECL extensions. I wish I could maintain many and many packages, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for the Dotdeb’s overall quality and for my free time ;) Sorry for that.

Then, this article will show you how to build packages from your favorite PECL extensions in a strict Debian way, using the dh-make-php package.