On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 12:53 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

Excellent :-)

Any reason for using a non-LTS version? Given how long packages are live in Debian, you'd be signing yourself up for maintenance past what upstream can supply ...

I can't speak for Lego, but it seems to me like an acceptable tradeoff. It looks like we have these choices:

A. Support security patches for 1.25 for the Debian LTS lifecycle

B. Support security patches for 1.23 (our last LTS) for the Debian LTS lifecycle

C. Support some other MediaWiki version for the Debian LTS lifecycle

D. Somehow try reviving the old 1.19 package and support that for the Debian LTS lifecycle

E. Abandon current MediaWiki Debian users entirely

Choice A seems like a very respectable choice to me. It implicitly adds 1.25 to our LTS support load, but I think we can realign our LTS cycles later and deal with the added overhead now (or rather, a couple years from now). I'm going to guess that a couple of years from now we'll appreciate having chosen the more recent choice.

Rob