PHP version retirement

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 4:23 PM Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de>
wrote:

>
> > Am 11.08.2019 um 23:31 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker <
> wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org>:
> >
> > * Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de> [190811 20:41]:
> >> [..]
> >>> You could also have used the quarterly branch, which keeps software
> till
> >>> the end of the quarter. In the case of php 5.6 it would have given you
> >>> time until March 31st, and would have included version 5.6.40
> >
> >> 5.6.40 never made it into the main ports tree. Are you sure it was
> available in the quarterly snapshot?
> >
> > I am sure. You can check for yourself using the svnweb interface at the
> > FreeBSD website; php 5.6.40 was added to the 2019Q1 branch on Jan 26th
>
> Thanks, Wolfgang, for pointing that out.
>
> Up to now I always thought of quarterly as a static snapshot of the main
> ports tree made at a given point in time.
>

OK. Where did 5.6.40 come from?

I just looked at the ports repo and it was NEVER committed there. The very
last commit to ports/head/lang/php56 was 5.6.39. Whil it has no impact on
me, I find it very odd to find a package that never existed in ports. That
makes it impossible for me to access the source for this package and
recreate it for any reason. My gut feeling is that this is broken and
should never happen.
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