Ondřej Surý

I'll look into backporting that upstream patch. It looks simple enough. Thanks for the pointer.

Just a forewarning - because it happens every time the distribution goes EOL, I will not discuss any requests such as: - could you "just keep it there" - could...

This is happening now...

The emails from GitHub does have headers identifying the rude person `X-GitHub-Sender: Monter` ... just saying.

It's right at the top: > If you absolutely need PHP packages past for the Debian Stretch ELTS and upgrade to Debian buster or (even better) Debian bullseye is not...

Debian doesn't support skipping releases, so you need to go via Debian Buster. Removing the packages from external repositories should not be necessary, but you need to update the sources.list...

If you can get a coredump from the pcre2, Philip (pcre author) is usually very responsive and helpful.

The pcre2 has been updated to 10.40, could you perhaps try now?

It depends on the location - Bunny CDN has some PoPs available over IPv6 and some not. You can use rsync to create a local APT mirror to IPv6 only...

Let me emphasize again: "You can use rsync to create a local APT mirror to IPv6-only locations."