[Bug 1069138] Re: After upgrading to 12.10 I can't install PHP 5.3

[Robie Basak]

Thank you for your report.

New Ubuntu releases are supposed to carry updated packages. If you need
packages to remain at a particular version then the recommended way of
doing this is to continue using the Ubuntu release that contains them.
To help you with this, regular releases are supported for 18 months, and
LTS releases are supported for five years. By upgrading, you chose to
upgrade all the packages on your system. I'm sorry if you didn't realise
this.

In your case, as the php package you need is available in 12.04 which
happens to be an LTS, you can carry on using 12.04 to have your required
php version with security updates until 2017. Alternatively, you could
use 12.10 on your own machine but do your development in an lxc
container, virtual machine or cloud instance on 12.04.

I understand the difficulty you're facing and hope that this gives you
some alternatives. But since the upgrade of php in 12.10 is by design
and in line with the Ubuntu release process, it is not a bug and so I am
marking this bug as Invalid. However, please do continue to report any
other bugs that you might find.

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  After upgrading to 12.10 I can't install PHP 5.3

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