Upgrade to Php 7.2 in Debian 8
Hello Linode Community,
I want to "pick your brain" for the best way to upgrade to PHP 7.2 for my Debian8 linode image.
As you may know the Php 5 generation will stop receiving security updates starting with January 2019.
Based on my Internet research the majority of the guides direct us to use a 3rd party repository; I am concerned about introducing in a rock solid & stable distribution that I am using for serving customer websites to a 3rd party repository potentially unsecure and or unreliable.
What do you recommend to do in this case?
Did you hear anything from the Debian team that they would backport the 7.2 to Debian 8?
Are you in the same situation and already performed the upgrade? If yes how did you manage to migrate from 5.6 to 7.2?
Thank you!
Razvan
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I had the same requirement a month ago and decided to use the third party repo deb.sury.org instead waiting for a jessie backport.
Also moved to stretch instead using the repo on jessie, and now i have the possibility to run 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 in parallel on an up to date Debian with this repo;
The maintainer states he is a Debian developer since 2000 and most of the php packages of Debian or Ubuntu are done by him or based on his work, so i didn't have to much of a concern doing it that way…
