PHP 5.5 rc2 was recently uploaded to Debian unstable by Ondřej Surý. Along side the new PHP version and its features the PHP team has dealt with the JSON extension being non-free because of the “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil” license (see debian #692613). php5 (5.5.0~rc1+dfsg-1) experimental; urgency=low [...] * Add dfsg-repack.sh script to remove non-free JSON module (Closes: #692
