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Re:Debian 11 by zozbot234 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @09:48AM (#28180590)
PHP 8.0 was not shipped in bullseye specifically because it could not be supported by Debian. A semi-official backport will most likely be available shortly after bullseye is released and testing/sid are reopened for new updates.
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Re:Debian 11 by amyjess on Saturday August 14, 2021 @02:36PM (#28182940)
Honestly, I'd rather just use RHEL 8 (or a clone like Rocky or Alma) with EPEL. You have all the stability advantages, plus an additional repository with bleeding-edge software that's not in the official distro.

(I worked at a RHEL shop for five years, and from my experience there I'd honestly rather not go back to having to deal with Debian-based distros ever again)

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Re:Debian 11 by stephenr on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:13PM (#28185986)
That sounds no different than using Debian stable + additional repos for whatever you need.
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Re:Debian 11 by GekkePrutser on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:40AM (#28181014)
I'm kinda surprised they didn't run out of toy story characters yet. After all Ubuntu already ran out of letters
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Re:Debian 11 by georgyo on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:01AM (#28181178)
Ubuntu releases twice a year. It only takes 13 years to outrun the English alphabet.

Meanwhile, Debian from 1.0 released in 1996, 25 years, had only 11 releases. 16 if you count unique codenames.

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Re:Debian 11 by sjukfan on Saturday August 14, 2021 @07:30PM (#28184842)
Little known fact, Pixar makes new Toy story movies just so Debian can name their versions.
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Re:Debian 11 by JPLeRouzic on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:12AM (#28180787)
> PHP 8.0 was not shipped in bullseye specifically because it could not be supported by Debian.

Please what do you mean by this sentence? What is the problem?

(I use PHP 7.3 for my personal web site under Debian 10)

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Re:Debian 11 by progval on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:02PM (#28181693)
There is a discussion on the topic here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976811

> The timing of this request makes me uneasy: php8.0 has been in Debian for less than a week, and we are a month away from the transition freeze.

> My point of view after actually working on those issues is that there is a significant number of packages that are not working just fine with PHP 8.0, and require a fair amount of work before that. Some of them being security sensitive, so just working around visible issues may not be of the best interest of anyone…

And by the time the maintainers decided to go with 8.0, they missed the deadline:

> The transition freeze has started, so we'll not transition to php8.0 in bullseye.

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