Comment by post-it
8 hours ago
Unless the magical code generation machine can update packages that are no longer being updated, this isn't really a problem that can be solved with magical code generation.
8 hours ago
Unless the magical code generation machine can update packages that are no longer being updated, this isn't really a problem that can be solved with magical code generation.
The slop machine can backport the fix to PHP 5, or make your code compatible with PHP 8.
Backporting the fix is much lower effort in total. It's just a few dozen minor PHP releases that are affected, but millions of websites still running on older PHP versions.
Yes but it can't actually upgrade and release packages for discontinued distro release streams, that's a human problem.