Source: php-apcu Section: php Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian PHP PECL Maintainers Uploaders: Lior Kaplan , Ondřej Surý Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10~), dh-php, libpcre3-dev, php-all-dev Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pecl/php-apcu.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team/pecl/php-apcu Homepage: https://pecl.php.net/package/APCu Package: php-apcu Architecture: any Pre-Depends: php-common (>= 2:69~) Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${pecl:Depends}, ${php:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Suggests: php-gd, ${pecl:Suggests} Conflicts: php-xcache, php-yac Breaks: ${pecl:Breaks} Replaces: ${pecl:Replaces} Provides: ${pecl:Provides}, ${php:Provides} Recommends: php-apcu-bc, ${misc:Recommends} Description: APC User Cache for PHP The APCu is userland caching: APC (Alternative PHP Cache) stripped of opcode caching after the deployment of Zend OpCache in PHP 5.5 as the primary solution to opcode caching in future versions of PHP. . The APCu is a fast solution for userland caching (and dumping) of PHP variables locally, it is not distributed like MemcacheD, but they can be used together for optimal caching.