Ondřej Surý

Anyway, the PHP 8.0.0~rc1 is available from https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php-qa It's pretty much barebones and untested - the only guarantee is "it builds" for the moment. I will start updating the tooling...

> A lot of PEAR core libs in Ubuntu 18.04 needs update. That's one package that's most painful to update :-(. Thanks for preliminary testing.

@alecpl There's updated `php-pear` package, could you try whether it works out of the box now, please?

Couple of extensions have been also uploaded to php-qa; some packages are not building (yet) and it's a general mayhem, but I am making progress.

> Also noticed there is no php8.0-xdebug module, and the old php7.4-xdebug also disappeared (which seems like a regression). There's no xdebug for PHP 8.0 yet, and php7.4-xdebug should be...

> The contents of '/etc/php/8.0` is structured differently than in 7.4. Is this intentional? What's different there? The phpdbg is a SAPI that got pulled due this issue: https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/1465

My plan was to use xdebug 3.0 only for PHP 8.0+ at this moment. I’ll probably ship a version for 5.6, version for 7.0-7.2 and version for 7.3-8.0 to keep...

I think I am done here. The rest of the extensions will be updated as the PHP 8.0 support becomes available.

> I guess, to be explicit, what I am proposing is (once xdebug 3.0 is stable): > > * PHP 5.6: xdebug 2.5.x > * PHP 7.0: xdebug 2.7.x >...

The Ubuntu has it already available. I will start rebuilding the extensions for Debian soon.