This is a heads-up message about upcoming changes to MediaWiki-Vagrant.

With MediaWiki master now requiring PHP 7.4, MediaWiki-Vagrant is now 
completely unusable with MediaWiki. Currently, MediaWiki-Vagrant still uses 
Debian Stretch, for which custom PHP 7.2 packages were compiled. These are the 
same that were previously used in production. Stretch is now out of support 
completely, and no PHP 7.4 packages are available for it. Production already 
switched to Buster and has only compiled PHP 7.4 for that distro. As a result, 
switching to Debian Buster is the only remaining option. Because the 
buster-migration branch is out of date and equally broken, it will be abandoned 
and its patches cherry-picked onto master. A stretch-compat branch will be 
created but is basically useless unless you're trying to run older wmf release 
branches.

The phabricator task for the buster migration is 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256822.

Mainframe98
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