On 3 August 2010 18:14, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thankful that the Debian MediaWiki package at least *works*. Not that the same can be said of all their packages either (OpenSSL, anyone?). Maybe if we provided .debs and RPMs, people would be less prone to use the distro packages.
That just creates more problems: * bad quality distro packages * bad quality our own packages (while we know MediaWiki, we are not experts in packaging) * lots of confusion
I don't see any other way out but to reach to the packagers and get their packages fixed. What we can do is to communicate this to our users and try to communicate more with the packagers. We already do the first in our IRC channel (telling users we can't support distro packages, and that they should just download the tarball), but there are lots of place where we don't do that yet.
In short: education and communication, not trying to do their job.
-Niklas