On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:10:09 +0200, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
From https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Ubuntu
"*Warning:* MediaWiki can also be installed using aptitude. The Ubuntu MediaWiki package is unsupported and usually outdated. We do not recommend you use it."
I suppose that could refer only to aptitude and not Ubuntu support as a whole.
Yes, that only refers to the various package manager packages (applies to distros other than Ubuntu, too), which historically have been varying in quality (so to speak) and always hopelessly outdated.