diff -Nru php7.0-7.0.7/debian/changelog php7.0-7.0.7/debian/changelog
--- php7.0-7.0.7/debian/changelog	2016-06-03 11:22:31.000000000 +0000
+++ php7.0-7.0.7/debian/changelog	2016-06-09 14:56:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+php7.0 (7.0.7-4ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop dh-php from Recommends to Suggests so it can be demoted to
+    universe (LP: #1590623).
+    - dh-php has gained a dependency on xml2 which is in universe.
+
+ -- Nishanth Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@canonical.com>  Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:13:12 -0700
+
 php7.0 (7.0.7-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Don't break apache2 configuration if setenvif_module is not enabled
diff -Nru php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control
--- php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control	2016-06-03 11:22:31.000000000 +0000
+++ php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control	2016-06-09 14:57:27.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: php7.0
 Section: php
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>,
            Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>,
            Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>
@@ -216,8 +217,8 @@
          ${perl:Depends}
 Conflicts: ${libtool:Conflicts}
 Architecture: any
-Recommends: dh-php,
-            pkg-php-tools
+Recommends: pkg-php-tools
+Suggests: dh-php
 Description: Files for PHP7.0 module development
  This package provides the files from the PHP7.0 source needed for compiling
  additional modules.
diff -Nru php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control.in php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control.in
--- php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control.in	2016-06-03 11:22:31.000000000 +0000
+++ php7.0-7.0.7/debian/control.in	2016-06-09 14:57:27.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: php@PHP_VERSION@
 Section: php
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>,
            Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>,
            Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>