Comment 118 for bug 1522422

On 01.04.2016 [06:05:01 -0000], Christian Sarrasin wrote:
> @nacc,
>
> I'm really sorry to pester as you must be v. busy at this point but is
> there a definitive word on what's going to happen with 16.04 GA? It's
> only 3 weeks away and people are having to plan out what release they'll
> be deploying in the near future.

Yep, we're going to be php7.0 only, as stated prior. Sorry for the
silence, I've been heads-down updating packages and dropping ones that
are not supported -- we are down to about 95 reverse-dependencies
holding php5 in the archive; I'm hopeful to get through that list today.

> FWIW as a service provider, I'm squarely with @jegr : choice (as in two
> supported versions as is the case in beta 2) would be much preferable!

That is more the case by happenstance; php5 is in universe because to
remove it directly would have broken much of the php part of the archive
:)