Re: mediawiki support in wheezy-LTS
On 2016-05-20 05:32:08, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> 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 The version of mediawiki used is hopelessly outdated, unfortunately.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.
That is great news!
So what should we do with mediawiki then, mark it as unsupported? Remove
it from the archive completely?
Then people could rely on the eventual backports from Kunal...
A.
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