Yeah ... for a while the Debian package for MediaWiki was distinctly
idiosyncratic (even by Debian standards), enough so that people were
recommended not to use it at all and just use the tarball.
For 1.19 it was less variant from upstream and well-maintained enough
to steer people to, but then the maintainer quit.
My advice for now would be to run MW from the
mediawiki.org tarball.
(This is what I do with various intranet systems running on Ubuntu.)
Updating them by hand using the official patch files is slightly
annoying, but not onerous.
As for the Ubuntu/Debian package ... it'd be *nice* if there were
something somewhat official that does things the slightly weird Debian
way. But the first thing that would require is someone committing to
do the job.
On 22 March 2016 at 10:52, Jan Lühr <mediawiki(a)yanosz.net> wrote:
Hei folks,
looking at
https://wiki.debian.org/MediaWiki the mediawiki-package for
Debian seems to be in not-so-good shape.
Debian is shipping 1.19 - Upstream Security support has ended, Debian
security seems to end soon.
We're running mediawiki on Debian for a small community project and I'm
thinking about our deploment.
We've been using mediawiki's tarballs for a few months now, but looking
at the patch-version our installation is outdated quite often. Thinking
about reason, I came up with this:
- Updating the tarball is unpleasant and cumbersome comparing to apt-get
upgrade
- The tooling for whining on an outdated installation is rather
non-existent. It's easy to overlook the issue.
- Updating an installation requires knowledge on how to deploy mediawiki
and its internals. It cannot be done by somebody familiar with Debian, only.
Using a debian package is very helpful - patching / upgrading is very
easy. Since apt is integrated into icinga, these issue do not get
overlooked that easy.
What do you thing about the situation?
Thinking about release intervals, Debian is way slower compared to
mediawiki - thus Debian's packages for mediawiki become outdated with
very high probability. Is there a chance to see debian packages built by
mediawiki some day soon?
Greetz,
yanosz
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