Hello, for a little bit of additional information, the mysql to mariadb transition decided to use a meta-package called default-mysql-server to provide a path for the transition during the upgrade.
Since php5 and php7 have a good number of differences, it might be desirable to have some kind of similar "opt-in" upgrade path so that one could install some package in jessie before performing the upgrade to stretch and have php packages get automatically upgraded to 7.0 one other detail that would be nice would be to add a note about this upgrade path in the release notes: https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
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