PHP version retirement

[Jochen Neumeister]

Am 12.08.2019 um 08:55 schrieb Wolfgang Zenker:
> * Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> [190812 01:50]:
>> 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.
> No, quarterly gets security fixes, just no "feature updates". That's why
> we use it in production, so we have to handle potentially breaking
> changes only once a quarter.
>
>> 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.
> It was committed on the 2019Q1 branch only, because HEAD didn't have the
> php56 port anymore at that time.


See here: 
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-branches/2019-January/006568.html