Please remove the historical versions to keep the deb package size small

[cniry]

The Blackfire deb package for PHP contains all existing versions since 2009.
It's 35 libraries = about 17 MB.
Please remove the historical versions to keep the deb package size small.
There is no need to backup all your versions onto your customers' disks, as you already have them on your servers.

# ls -lah /usr/lib/blackfire-php/*/
total 17M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   34 Dec 19 13:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4 Dec 19 13:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20090626-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 406K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20090626.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20100525-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 406K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20100525.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20121212-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 422K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20121212.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 430K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20131226-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426K Dec 10 08:52 blackfire-20131226.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20151012-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20151012.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20160303-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20160303.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 494K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20170718-debug.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20170718-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20170718.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20180731-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20180731.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20190902-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20190902.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 505K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20200930-debug.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20200930-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 475K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20200930.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20210902-debug.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20210902-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20210902.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20220829-debug.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20220829-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20220829.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20230831-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 487K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20230831.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 516K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20240924-zts.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488K Dec 10 08:57 blackfire-20240924.so

[nicolas-grekas]

That's not about historical versions. That's about PHP binary API version. Aka this is required to have one .deb that works with all supported versions of PHP.

[cniry]

What about separate deb packages?