On 10/02/2013 10:14 AM, David Gerard wrote:
Instead, I would suggest submitting patches to the existing packages or joining the mediawiki-distributors mailing list and talking about how you think the packages could be improved.
I'm assuming Thorsten doesn't scale, and a PPA with releases other than LTS might be of interest.
Absolutely.
But Thorsten isn't the only person working on the Debian packages. And even a PPA isn't going to address the needs of Fedora and RedHat users.
I would still recommend working with Kartik (a Debian Developer working with the WMF) to get a newer version in Debian unstable.