On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Lane, Ryan
<Ryan.Lane(a)ocean.navo.navy.mil> wrote:
Is MediaWiki
such a special piece of
software that it's impossible to build a good package?
It's "special". It isn't necessarily the fault of the distro or the
package
maintainer for the quality of the packages. It is our fault. Upgrading is
unreliable for a number of reasons. It is definitely unreliable enough that
I wouldn't trust a package to do it for me, and I can't reasonably recommend
it for anyone else either.
Fair enough. Is it safe to assume that the new installer work should
make proper packaging more viable?
I think it would be better if we provided the
packages. If we fix our
upgrade issues, I'll be more than happy to write rpms and debs.
I think this would be fantastic, so defining what bar we need to clear
would be seems like a worthwhile exercise. Even if distro makers
still go off and create their own derivatives, having a good reference
implementation would be wonderful.
I think you'd be hard pressed to find a project that doesn't complain
about what packagers do (assuming they don't do their own packaging,
and even then...)
Rob