Speaking of which, was there any progress on this? Debian release is very close, and I have to make phabricator package uninstallable (keeping only Arcanist and libphutil in).

In T9640#189032, @michaeljs1990 wrote:

@reet- If you are using ppa:ondrej/php they tend to be of higher quality then the official php packages maintained on ubuntus ppa in most cases. You have to trust someone however and in this case it's ondrej instead of canonical.