On 10 January 2016 at 20:04, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)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code doesn't get super out of date and having it updated for new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.