Re: mediawiki support in wheezy-LTS
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:11:53AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>
> > >> Actually, before we do that: did we actually agree that we would not
> > >> support mediawiki in wheezy? That's news to me, and it's part of the
> > >> sponsored packages list...
>
> The version of mediawiki used is hopelessly outdated, unfortunately.
> But you can probably pick up what’s still there for 1.19, maybe
> backport the occasional fix by hand. (I don’t follow their new
> releases either.)
>
> I’d most certainly *not* mark it as “supported”.
Ack. It's also no longer supported in jessie, see release notes.
> That’s all “as is”. We’re currently reconsidering what to do with
> mediawiki as well. But since it could be useful, and anarcat posted
> about it on Planet Debian, I thought to share.
mediawiki has a new maintainer (Kunal Mehta), the new LTS version is
currently in NEW.
Kunal is one of the core upstream developers of mediawiki.
Cheers,
Moritz
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