On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:17 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the Debian MediaWIki maintainer has also quit
At first I thought you meant quit maintaining mediawiki, looked at archives a bit and now I guess you mean quit Debian altogether.
mediawiki packaging wasn't a single person working alone and still shouldn't be.
so the 1.19 in Debian won't be upgraded to 1.23 in the foreseeable future unless someone steps up and takes over.
Anyway, Debian stable ("jessie") was just released (~5 weeks ago) so we have plenty of time for someone to get involved with MediaWiki packaging and get changes into the next release. (even someone without prior Debian experience)
Debian is somewhat open to meeting demand but also some things don't get done unless you do the work yourself. If Debian releases are too slow for you, imagine there could be a future with more options a la http://mozilla.debian.net/. (e.g. latest LTS, wmf branches, latest stable in addition to whichever LTS is currently in Debian stable/testing)
Brenton, please see the links in the last few mails if you want to work on this. (and let us know how it goes with Debian mentors)
-Jeremy