Provide php-xdebug package for PHP 7.3

[markvds]

As PHP 7.3 is supported as of today (thanks for that!), it would be nice if xdebug would also be available for installation. Unfortunately I'm not comfortable enough with apt to fully understand why it's not available - whether it's not available at all or only in this specific byte2 version.

apt-cache says about the php-xdebug package (version 2.6.0+2.5.5-byte2):

Provides: php5.5-xdebug, php5.6-xdebug, php7.0-xdebug, php7.1-xdebug, php7.2-xdebug

TL;DR It would be nice to have php-xdebug for PHP 7.3 available to install

[vdloo]

Hi @markvds, yeah I'm aware. I built a new version of php-xdebug but found that PHP 5.5 and PHP 5.6 have been dropped (and we still support those). I have to figure out figure out something for this some time but skipped that for now because we don't install php-xdebug on production Hypernodes (as that would interfere with our monitoring among other things).

after:

root@3502dc-phpxdebug-magweb-vgr /vagrant # dpkg -L php-xdebug 
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug/copyright
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/php
/usr/lib/php/20180731
/usr/lib/php/20180731/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20170718
/usr/lib/php/20170718/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20151012
/usr/lib/php/20151012/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20160303
/usr/lib/php/20160303/xdebug.so
/etc
/etc/php
/etc/php/7.3
/etc/php/7.3/mods-available
/etc/php/7.3/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.0
/etc/php/7.0/mods-available
/etc/php/7.0/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.2
/etc/php/7.2/mods-available
/etc/php/7.2/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.1
/etc/php/7.1/mods-available
/etc/php/7.1/mods-available/xdebug.ini

before:

root@3502dc-phpxdebug-magweb-vgr /vagrant # dpkg -L php-xdebug
/.
/etc
/etc/php
/etc/php/5.5
/etc/php/5.5/mods-available
/etc/php/5.5/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/5.6
/etc/php/5.6/mods-available
/etc/php/5.6/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.0
/etc/php/7.0/mods-available
/etc/php/7.0/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.1
/etc/php/7.1/mods-available
/etc/php/7.1/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/etc/php/7.2
/etc/php/7.2/mods-available
/etc/php/7.2/mods-available/xdebug.ini
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/php
/usr/lib/php/20170718
/usr/lib/php/20170718/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20131226
/usr/lib/php/20131226/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20160303
/usr/lib/php/20160303/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20121212
/usr/lib/php/20121212/xdebug.so
/usr/lib/php/20151012
/usr/lib/php/20151012/xdebug.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/php-xdebug/copyright
/etc/php/7.3/mods-available/xdebug.ini

I did put this deb somewhere for you to download if you want:

# wget sharkdance.hypernode.io/php-xdebug_2.7.0-byte3_amd64.deb
# dpkg -i php-xdebug_2.7.0-byte3_amd64.deb

but note that this link is volatile and will probably die some time soon. I'll see if I can find some time for a nicer solution soon but at least for now you won't have to be blocked on this.

[vdloo]

@markvds this should now work as before also for PHP 7.3: https://support.hypernode.com/changelog/release-6591-php-xdebug-for-php-7-3-for-hypernode-docker/

[markvds]

@vdloo Did I say thank you? No I didn't!

Thank you for the quick response and quick resolution! Works like a charm!