No, mcrypt is deprecated and dangerous to use. It was removed for reason.

The software using mcrypt must be fixed, not the other way around.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>

> On 20 Sep 2018, at 01:23, Nikolai Lusan <niko...@lusan.id.au> wrote:
> 
> Package: php-mcrypt
> Version: 1:7.0+57
> Followup-For: Bug #893481
> 
> Since various other php packaging teams are not supporting any version of php
> below version 7.2, and there is software that requires the mcrypt module to
> function a version of php-mcrypt that supports php 7.2 is needed
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages php-mcrypt depends on:
> ii  php-common     1:62
> pn  php7.0-mcrypt  <none>
> 
> php-mcrypt recommends no packages.
> 
> php-mcrypt suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

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