PHP developers working on Debian have one more reason to be happy with their choice of linux distributions - as Derick Reathans notes , XDebug has been added as an apt-getable package to the Debian systems.

Since a few days, there is a new package in Debian: php5-xdebug .

After a few years of talking licenses, due to the help of Martin Meredith and Francois Marier Xdebug can finally be installed with apt-get.

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