pecl xdebug fails to install (Ubuntu)

[pettai]

This might be Ubuntu specific (I don't know what the other distros php base version is)

failed: [localhost] (item=xdebug) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "cmd": "yes '' | pecl install xdebug", "delta": "0:00:00.277975", "end": "2020-06-02 08:05:33.926174", "failed_when_result": true, "item": "xdebug", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2020-06-02 08:05:33.648199", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "pecl/xdebug requires PHP (version >= 7.1.0), installed version is 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.15\nNo valid packages found\ninstall failed", "stdout_lines": ["pecl/xdebug requires PHP (version >= 7.1.0), installed version is 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.15", "No valid packages found", "install failed"]}

The workaround is to explicitly add the (compatible) version - xdebug-2.6.1 into ./vars/php-pecl.yml