Re: MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

[John Foster <jfoster81747@gmail.com>]

On 7/21/2011 1:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, John W Foster wrote:
>
> > There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0  Any
> > idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support
> > substitution// {{subst}}&  {{safesubst}} // so that the error message we
> > are getting with Ver. 1.15 will be resolved. It is an important upgrade
> > for those of us who use this software. Thanks!
> Please resend your mail to the bug report about this issue:
>
> 613791@bugs.debian.org
> http://bugs.debian.org/613791
>
> That said, it looks like the Debian maintainers of mediawiki need help
> with it, so you might end up joining the team and doing the upgrade
> yourself :)
Oh its not a bug; just the current version is way old. Its been years 
since I packaged anything myself. i will have to relearn how..LOL but I 
guess I,ll give it a whirl.
Thanks!
frosty