On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Ariel T. Glenn wrote:
The main utility is designed to read XML dumps that conform to the Mediawiki export schema [1] and write sql for importing into three MW tables. If that should be treated as separate from MediaWiki for .deb purposes, that's fine
The rule of separation here is that it has separate upstream.
there's a Java MW XML->MySQL conversion utility with somewhat different functionality that would be nice to get packaged up too, and we can follow the same route for both of them.
This also means that the conversion utilities do not require anything from the MediaWiki packages themselves (like the extensions do), and that they’re only useful for a small subset of MediaWiki users (those that indeed use MySQL instead of a database). Which confirms that.
In case you *do* need something to be changed in the core mediawiki* packages in Debian, of course this is the right place to go. (And maybe one of the other readers will show interest in those packages – just I don’t.)
bye, //mirabilos