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Dropped Support for PHP7.0 dba Extension in 16.04

Asked by Michael Shaffer

I noticed that there was dropped support for dba extension (and several others) in the build of PHP7.0 that is being shipped with 16.04.
It looks like it was being compiled with this extension enabled during initial release why was this removed and is there some other package that can be installed to support it?

My question is specific to the php-7.0-cli package.

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Michael Shaffer (michaelshaffer37) said : 		#1

Found these two comments in the change log of the php7.0 package.

php7.0 (7.0.3-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Ondřej Surý ]
  * Split several compiled-in extensions to independent extension packages
  * Make several builtin extensions shared and move them into -common package

Can't find the extension package that includes the dba extension module.

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Michael Shaffer (michaelshaffer37) said : 		#2

Well some more digging around and found this in the package git repo @/debian/NEWS

php7.0 (7.0.3-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Several extensions have been split into separate extension packages:
   - php-dba - Database (dbm-style) Abstraction Layer
   - php-mbstring - Multibyte String
   - php-soap - SOAP
   - php-xml - DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, XMLReader and XMLWriter
   - php-zip - Zip
  * The new packages are not installed automatically, so you will need to
    install them by hand, if you use the functions in those modules.
  * Most modules that have been builtin before are now included in
    php7.0-common package and they are enabled by default for your
    convenience. You can disable unneede modules via phpdismod tool.

 -- Ondřej Surý <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:37:09 +0100

But it still looks like the php-dba extension package is missing from the Ubuntu repositories or I just can't find it.

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Matthias Leuffen (leuffen) said : 		#3

We have the same issue here.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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