If I go this route, would I need to uninstall all my php7.0x packages by
hand first and then install PHP via the sury repo?

eg:


# aptitude purge $(dpkg -l | grep php | awk '{print $2};' | xargs)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
imagemagick-6-common{u} libapache2-mod-php{p}
libapache2-mod-php7.0{p} liblqr-1-0{u} libmagickcore-6.q16-3{u}
libmagickwand-6.q16-3{u} libmcrypt4{u} libzip4{u} php{p}
php-apcu{p} php-apcu-bc{pu} php-bz2{p} php-common{p} php-curl{p}
php-fpm{p} php-gd{p} php-igbinary{p} php-imagick{p} php-intl{p}
php-json{p} php-ldap{p} php-mbstring{p}
php-mcrypt{p} php-mysql{p} php-redis{p} php-xml{p} php-zip{p}
php7.0{pu} php7.0-bz2{pu} php7.0-cli{pu} php7.0-common{p}
php7.0-curl{pu} php7.0-fpm{pu} php7.0-gd{pu}
php7.0-intl{pu} php7.0-json{pu} php7.0-ldap{pu} php7.0-mbstring{pu}
php7.0-mcrypt{pu} php7.0-mysql{pu} php7.0-opcache{pu}
php7.0-readline{pu} php7.0-xml{p} php7.0-zip{pu}
ttf-dejavu-core{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 45 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 32.7 MB will be freed.
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On 6/5/19 6:27 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
> https://deb.sury.org/
>
> You can get php7.3 from that repository for ascii. Just use the
> “stretch” equivalent name from debian.
>
> On 6 Jun 2019, at 00:53, hal <vmlinux@???
> <mailto:vmlinux@charter.net>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I happened to glance over at the supported PHP matrix[1] on php.net
>> <http://php.net> yesterday and noticed 7.0x is EOL. This is the
>> version bundled with Ascii. Do the debian backports cover securiy
>> updates to PHP 7.0x until the distro itself is EOL or should I have
>> upgraded PHP already?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1]
>> https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
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