news 28 Posted August 8, 2008 Heya, it's August 8th, which is the date of official discontinuation of any work on php-4 (even security-related) on upstream-side [1] [2]. On gentoo, =dev-lang/php-4* has already been masked for security reasons since Oct 19th 2007, along with everything which depends on it. Removal from our tree was initially announced for Jan 1st 2008, but we decided to postpone it until today to give users even more time to migrate. That means, I'm going to remove all php-4-related things today: * dev-php4/ (will be done by infra) * dev-lang/php/php-4* Basically: Everything explicitly listed in package.mask because of php-4. Also, several adjustments to ebuilds, which are still referring to dev-php4/* names (e.g. because of blocks or "|| ( a b )" deps), will be made by me today. If you (or your company) have still not upgraded (you probably should not run such a setup anyway, at least if it's publicly accessible), you might be interested in the yet to be created php4 overlay [3], which will be accessible using layman once it is available. As always, feel free to contact the php team by mail [4] or IRC (Freenode / #gentoo-php). [1] http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php [2] http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-07-1 [3] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/php/browser [4] php-bugs ( -at -) gentoo.org -- Christian Hoffmann Share this post Link to post
