Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work
On 03/10/2016 09:25 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> Is there any update or status on this?
The package was rejected from the NEW queue last week due to some
upstream copyright issues and lintian warnings. These issues have now
been resolved and my sponsor should be uploading the new version to the
NEW queue shortly. In the meantime, the packages are available at
<https://people.wikimedia.org/~legoktm/debian/> if you'd like to give
them a try. :)
> As it has been more than two months since the filing of the ITP, and
> nearly as long since the last bug activity, I am left a little bit in
> Limbo on this; I can neither move forward independently of any Debian
> package, nor plan around the expected arrival schedule of the updated
> Debian package.
I don't have a good idea on how long it'll take to go through the review
process, sorry.
> (Also, the version of MediaWiki in Debian stable does not seem to behave
> as documented; the only in-Debian documentation I've found directs the
> sysadmin to configure the package via a Web interface, but on a machine
> which has had mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 installed - with its
> dependencies, including Apache - and no other special configuration
> performed, Apache does not expose the described Web interface. Which
> isn't relevant to this bug, except that it means I can't just start out
> with the already-packaged version and expect to be able to upgrade that
> if-and-when the new version gets packaged.)
I am currently packaging 1.25.x, and will update it to 1.27.x (LTS) once
it is released in May. IIRC, the old package required you to manually
edit the Apache config and uncomment some lines. The new package
automatically sets up the proper config, which includes allowing use of
the web installer and upgrader.
-- Kunal
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