Brenton Horne brentonhorne77@gmail.com wrote:
How the existing 1.19 version does it? Yes, users @ Ask Ubuntu suggested I do this, but as I am not really a developer or programmer I didn't really understand what I found by extracting the Debian package. I asked them for help but suffice it to say they weren't exactly helpful.
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Packaging for Debian/Ubuntu (often) is very non-trivial. If you don't understand the existing 1.19 package, you will have to invest a *lot* of hours to package MediaWiki.
There is a dedicated mailing list for packaging MediaWiki for Debian/Ubuntu at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mediawiki-devel, and https://wiki.debian.org/MediaWiki has some general information.
Tim