On 10 January 2016 at 20:04, Legoktm legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/10/2016 12:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
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 ...
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.
Sounds good.
Or indeed robla's idea of declaring 1.25 an LTS, which would be awesome if the VE in it is similarly supported.
Is there any chance of this making Ubuntu 16.04, or are we already too late?
But the other part of this project is making sure that the packaging code doesn't get super out of date and having it updated for new MediaWiki versions - so we can provide debs for people who want to use newer versions, whether or not they go into the Debian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.
Yeah. And even given the odd Debian ways of doing some things (e.g., Apache), it would be fantastic to have a Debian/Ubuntu package that doesn't require a long string of caveats on its mediawiki.org page. (I speak here as a sysadmin who presently installs from tarball and would be *delighted* to install from apt-get.)
- d.