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What happened to php-5.4.11 from Ondrej PPA?

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I am in 12.04 so I added Ondrej's PPA to get PHP 5.4. So far so good but php-5.4.12 seems to be broken with our code and after a while of struggling I decided to downgrade to php-5.4.11 but apt-cache showpkg php5 says:

Provides: 

5.4.12-1~precise+1 - 

5.3.10-1ubuntu3.5 - 

5.3.10-1ubuntu3 -

apparently 5.4.11 is no longer kept in my system for some reason as I'm sure at some point in time I updated to 5.4.11 and then after a while to 5.4.12.

The other strange thing is what happened to the 5.4.11 in the Odrenj PPA ?! Sure he doesn't just delete a package when a new one arrives (?)

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answered 2 Years ago pipeag · Accepted Answer

PPA indeed does delete older packages when new version is uploaded.

For further reading about this, see:

Packaging/PPA ("Packages...in your PPA...until...superseded by another package")

Bug 215661 ("it would be nice if launchpad allowed multiple versions of a package to be present in PPA" and the bug is triaged)