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What's the difficulty for sysadmins? Maybe it's particular to your OS? With FreeBSD for example, there are port flavours for the various PHP versions, and it easy to choose.

>>1over1+(OP)
Debian historically does not maintain multiple versions of PHP in official channels. Your options are:

1. Compile PHP yourself (no)

2. Use an untrusted third party repo (probably not)

3. Upgrade OS to latest

4. (apparently) Use FreeBSD instead.

For all I know this could change. The current release schedule of PHP is greatly accelerated from what it was 5-10 years ago, and we're all still adjusting I think.

>>trey-j+ye
> Use an untrusted third party repo

If you can't trust Ondřej Surý's repo, you're gonna be disappointed when you see who maintains the PHP packages in Debian's official repo.