Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases
On 05/13/2012 11:32 AM, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2012, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it's difficult to work out. I'd also be worried by the
>> (potential?) set of users who may just use Wordpress because it's
>> already packaged and who therefore assume that it's likely to be a
>> safe option. Without that, they may just use something else.
>
> The number of people who end up using Wordpress on Debian by just taking one
> of the blogging packages that is packaged is probably quite small.
>
> There are lots of people who choose Wordpress because it seems to provide a
> lot of features that other systems don't provide, which includes a significant
> set of free themes and plugins which are available from Wordpress.org (not in
> Debian).
And what I know from those who maintain wordpress installations is that the
debian packages are too old to be really useful. Most plugins seem to require
current versions.
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