Source: php-defaults Version: 68 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I've recently tried to use a PHP application on my Debian Testing system, only to find the PHP SOAP extension missing. I tried to install it as php7.2-soap, which isn't available, and as php-soap, which forces me to install php 7.3. After some digging I've found bug #911673 which I believe to be the cause of this. Does this mean that only 7.0 and 7.3 is now provided by debian (stable and testing respectively)? Because one of them is EOL and the other one is 12 days old as of writing this message - may I ask (as a complete novice to debian development...), why should there be no middle ground between obsolete and bleeding edge? Many PHP packages are not yet ready for 7.3 (I know it shouldn't break anything, but packages are packages...), so that forces people to use 7.0, which isn't supported anymore... Thanks, Marek Dědič P.S.: I am new to the Debian bug tracker, if I reported this to the wrong package or somehow did it improperly, please do tell me. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
