Hei folks,
looking at https://wiki.debian.org/MediaWiki the mediawiki-package for Debian seems to be in not-so-good shape.
Debian is shipping 1.19 - Upstream Security support has ended, Debian security seems to end soon.
We're running mediawiki on Debian for a small community project and I'm thinking about our deploment.
We've been using mediawiki's tarballs for a few months now, but looking at the patch-version our installation is outdated quite often. Thinking about reason, I came up with this:
- Updating the tarball is unpleasant and cumbersome comparing to apt-get upgrade - The tooling for whining on an outdated installation is rather non-existent. It's easy to overlook the issue. - Updating an installation requires knowledge on how to deploy mediawiki and its internals. It cannot be done by somebody familiar with Debian, only.
Using a debian package is very helpful - patching / upgrading is very easy. Since apt is integrated into icinga, these issue do not get overlooked that easy.
What do you thing about the situation?
Thinking about release intervals, Debian is way slower compared to mediawiki - thus Debian's packages for mediawiki become outdated with very high probability. Is there a chance to see debian packages built by mediawiki some day soon?
Greetz, yanosz