Hi Kienan, automatic upgrade from php5 to php7.0 is not a very good idea as there were many backwards incompatible changes.
The missing "automatic" upgrade path is deliberate (together with fact that php5 continues to be usable). I will provide some text to the release notes. Cheers, -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, fast DNS(SEC) resolver Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro pečení chleba všeho druhu On Fri, Apr 14, 2017, at 19:20, Kienan wrote: > Package: php7.0 > Severity: important > > > Dear Maintainer, > > When upgrading from jessie to stretch, there are no packages proposed for > php7.0 when php5 is installed. > > php7.0 and any other packages need to be installed manually afterwards. > The php5 are not marked for auto-removal and php5 continues to be usable. > > As php5 is not available in stretch, I would expect that the option be > given to install related php7.0 packages and switch to using the new > version. > > I've marked this as important, but this doesn't actually stop this > package from being used. I believe the severity is warranted so the > upgrade to stretch is smooth for users. > > Thanks, > Kienan > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 9.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint
