On 3 August
2010 18:14, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm thankful that the Debian MediaWiki
package at least
*works*. Not
that the same can be said of all their packages
either (OpenSSL,
anyone?). Maybe if we provided .debs and RPMs, people would be less
prone to use the distro packages.
That just creates more problems:
* bad quality distro packages
* bad quality our own packages (while we know MediaWiki, we are not
experts in packaging)
* lots of confusion
I've packaged hundreds of RPMs. It isn't difficult, and you don't need to be
an expert. It is easy enough to package the MediaWiki software. The real
problem comes with upgrades. How does the package handle this? Do we ignore
the actual maintanence/update.php portion? Do we run it? How do we handle
extensions? Package them too? Do we make a repo for all of this? How are the
extensions handled on upgrade?