On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 June 2012 19:20, Mark A. Hershberger
<mah(a)everybody.org> wrote:
Speaking of testing, if anyone wants to help make
sure the 1.19 release
of MediaWiki included in the next Debian package (and probably the next
Ubuntu package) is working, now is the time to test. Debian will soon
freeze their packages for their upcoming stable release.
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/mediawiki
Last I recalled, the Debian MediaWiki was regarded as a pit of
gratuitous weirdness of sufficient extent that it was all but
deprecated, and any sane admin installs from the tarball. Is this
still the state of play, and if not then what improved?
Well since we introduced a CLI installer, it should make the process
much cleaner for people packaging the wiki. I don't know what work
has been done (if any), but the groundwork's been laid on our end.
The other big complaint we've had over time is moving stuff around
to the typical Debian-esque locations (eg: putting LocalSettings in
/etc). Don't know what the status is on that though.
-Chad