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Heya, |
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it's August 8th, which is the date of official discontinuation of any |
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work on php-4 (even security-related) on upstream-side [1] [2]. |
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On gentoo, =dev-lang/php-4* has already been masked for security reasons |
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since Oct 19th 2007, along with everything which depends on it. Removal |
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from our tree was initially announced for Jan 1st 2008, but we decided |
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to postpone it until today to give users even more time to migrate. |
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That means, I'm going to remove all php-4-related things today: |
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* dev-php4/ (will be done by infra) |
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* dev-lang/php/php-4* |
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Basically: Everything explicitly listed in package.mask because of php-4. |
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Also, several adjustments to ebuilds, which are still referring to |
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dev-php4/* names (e.g. because of blocks or "|| ( a b )" deps), will be |
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made by me today. |
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If you (or your company) have still not upgraded (you probably should |
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not run such a setup anyway, at least if it's publicly accessible), you |
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might be interested in the yet to be created php4 overlay [3], which |
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will be accessible using layman once it is available. |
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As always, feel free to contact the php team by mail [4] or IRC |
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(Freenode / #gentoo-php). |
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[1] http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php |
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[2] http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-07-1 |
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[3] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/php/browser |
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[4] php-bugs@g.o |
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Christian Hoffmann |