Update deb/RPM packaging scripts: add PHP 8.3–8.5, drop PHP < 7.2

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The .deb packaging script's Depends list was missing PHP 8.3+ mysql packages and still carried obsolete PHP 5.x/7.0/7.1 dependencies. The RPM spec's minimum version message was similarly stale (PHP 5.4).

Changes

• utils/wp-cli-updatedeb.sh — dump_control() Depends line:

  • Removed pre-7.2 PHP packages: php5-cli, php7-cli, php5-mysql, php5-mysqlnd, php7.0-mysql, php7.1-mysql
  • Added php8.3-mysql, php8.4-mysql, php8.5-mysql
  • Simplified CLI dependency to php-cli (Debian metapackage)

  Depends: php-cli, php7.2-mysql | php7.3-mysql | php7.4-mysql | php8.0-mysql | php8.1-mysql | php8.2-mysql | php8.3-mysql | php8.4-mysql | php8.5-mysql | php-mysql, mysql-client | mariadb-client
  

• utils/wp-cli-rpm.spec — Updated %post message from PHP 5.4 → PHP 7.2 to match the actual minimum requirement.

Original prompt

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<issue_title>No PHP 8.2 compatible release of deb archive</issue_title>
<issue_description>Please can you package up and release a PHP 8.2 compatible version of php-wcli_2.8.1_all.deb? Only one change is required, adding | php-mysql to the Depends list. I was able to decompress the current deb file, update Depends in DEBIAN/control, rebuild the package, and then install it on Debian Bookworm, which ships with PHP 8.2 as standard. I haven't tested exhaustively but so far I haven't come across any errors.</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>In utils/wp-cli-updatedeb.sh, add support for PHP 8.3 - 8.5. Drop support for anything below PHP 7.2

Also update utils/wp-cli-rpm.spec to require PHP 7.2+ instead of 5.4</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@danielbachhuber @schlessera Can you rebuild `php-wpcli_2.8.1_all.deb` now that https://github.com//pull/562 is applied? It looks like `php-wpcli_latest_all.deb` is out of date too. @swissspidy Is this issue still relevant? @swissspidy Thanks for the ping. That file could definitely use an update.

• Fixes No PHP 8.2 compatible release of deb archive builds#62

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Pull request overview

Updates Debian and RPM packaging metadata to reflect the project’s supported PHP versions and improve installability on newer distributions.

Changes:

• Updated Debian Depends to drop pre-7.2 explicit packages, use php-cli, and add MySQL extension alternatives up through PHP 8.5.
• Updated RPM %post output message to state PHP 7.2+ instead of PHP 5.4+.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
utils/wp-cli-updatedeb.sh	Refreshes generated DEBIAN/control dependencies to remove obsolete PHP packages and add newer MySQL extension alternatives.
utils/wp-cli-rpm.spec	Updates the post-install message to reflect the intended minimum PHP version.

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cc @szepeviktor Please double-check the changes.

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