What's the plan for PHP support in LTS releases?

[Oli Warner]

We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/

 - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support
period
 - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-2016

Basically, PHP version die a lot quicker than our LTS releases...
But PHP upgrades also have backwards incompatibilities so SRUing them
through is haphazard.

So what's the plan? Is somebody manually backporting fixes?
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