Hi,
On 01/10/2016 12:53 AM, David Gerard 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 ...
At the time we started work on the new package, 1.25 was the most recent stable release. Packaging 1.23.x would have been an option, however it was already a year old, and 1.27 would be released in a year.
Our current plan is to first get the 1.25.x package into Debian (the mediawiki package was removed a few months ago due to lack of maintainers), and when 1.27 is released, update it to use that. For Debian purposes, we'll want 1.27 to get into stretch, and continue supporting that.
But the other part of this project is making sure that the packaging code doesn't get super out of date and having it updated for new MediaWiki versions - so we can provide debs for people who want to use newer versions, whether or not they go into the Debian archive.
-- Legoktm