On 31 May 2015 at 23:02, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Definitely better to package first for Debian and following Debian practices. Then Ubuntu should be able to copy that pretty easily (depending on timing).
I believe the Debian MediaWIki maintainer has also quit, so the 1.19 in Debian won't be upgraded to 1.23 in the foreseeable future unless someone steps up and takes over.
(The mediawiki.org pages on Debian/Ubuntu should probably be updated. Though I run a pile of MW on Ubuntu from tarball and it's pretty clean and straightforward.)
- d.