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Hi there, Debian Wheezy comes with PHP 5.4. Unfortunately this release of PHP breaks a lot of sites because some functions formerly used for session management have been removed. This makes upgrading from PHP 5.3 (as of Debian Squeeze) to the current stable version difficult to impossible. In my opinion it would be great if you could provide PHP 5.3 packages in Debian Wheezy as well. Of course some packages would conflict (there can't be two versions of libapache2-mod-php5 be installed at the same time), but for example it would be perfectly fine to have both versions of php5-cgi installed. In many cases people choose to install suphp plus php5-cgi. In such a scenario it would be rather easy to configure the system to use php5.3 for specific virtual hosts and php5.4 for others. This would solve this problem for many users. In general I would like to suggest to use "versioned" package names in general for PHP in the future. Have php5-php5.3-cgi and php5-php5.4-cgi (or similar names) and let both of them provide php5-cgi. As PHP has a bad track record for making incompatible changes in there releases, this would greatly help many users again. Thank you. - -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlCsMtgACgkQUJiA4/ahDC11yQCeLFBU6wyU7pl2GrWNqxNYmvZG WRQAn0ElsyHppCiAl+pJjf25l2l1vP9D =BKk1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org