> If you mean docker official images, it's just the "community" maintaining it, eg "some dudes".

This is false. The Docker Official Images team (i.e. the folks with write access to the docker-library/* organization) are Docker employees.

"Official" docker images are maintained by "The Docker Community", not by the company. It literally says so on the php "official" image.

My only experience is within Docker images, but yes. Replace the pecl call with the equivalent pie call and you are done.

Disclosure: I'm a PHP core team member and also contributed some code to PIE.

The package is marked as abandoned on Packagist [1]

> This package is abandoned and no longer maintained. No replacement package was suggested.

Both adding it as a dependency using composer and installing it from a lockfile results in:

    $ composer require jakeasmith/http_build_url
    […]
    Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
    […]
    $ rm -r vendor/
    $ composer install
    […]
      - Installing jakeasmith/http_build_url (1.0.2): Extracting archive
    Package jakeasmith/http_build_url is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
    […]

[1] https://packagist.org/packages/jakeasmith/http_build_url

It would have been nice if a replacement had been suggested.

Replacement is defined in the github repo, in composer you can only define an replacement package, but there is no real replacement, just alternative ways.

Read the linked entry.