PHP 7.2-apache on Debian 8

[AndryBray]

Please, could you add support to php 7.2 on Debian 8 jessie?
Thank you

[tianon]

As seen in #504, the plan is actually to eventually transition everything off Jessie. What's the use case that warrants sticking with Jessie variants?

[AndryBray]

The main reason is about third party components/libs which are not supported on debian stretch

[scottconnerly]

For example, coreutils recognizing overlayfs (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/filesystems.html). overlayfs is available in stretch but not jessie.

This is specifically important for tailing log files (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-03/msg00067.html).

I'd love to upgrade to 7.2, but can't yet. Migrating away from mcrypt is a project of its own.

EDIT
Sorry, this comment is an argument for the opposite.
@AndryBray : requesting 7.2 on jessie
Me: requesting 7.1 on stretch