On 9 January 2013 00:08, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
Understood (though I didn't know about 1.19 being an LTS release; who is doing the supporting, exactly, and what does 'support' entail here? [*] is unclear…).
Tarball version is "supported" (security fixes, etc) for the purpose of not having hideously ancient unsupportable rubbish in Debian therefore Ubuntu, and oh yeah other distros. And working with the distro package maintainers not to do weird broken things with their version of MediaWiki, i.e. Debian therefore Ubuntu.
- d.