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?
- d.