Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 8 February 2013 13:15, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> This package is a bit difficult to "fix". One it has custom patches
>> that upstream doesn't accept. Two the fix is to upgrade to a very new
>> version which will break everyone who upgrades until they (or the
>> first person who gets to the website :) ) runs the upgrade mode..
>> which might not work due to either custom changes or the fact that it
>> is a large upgrade change.
>
> Stephen,
>
> 1. The two patches are for hard-coding defaults. We shouldn't be in the
> business of doing this. I've dropped the two patches in my 1.19 build.

I thought it was more in the past. I dropped them from the various
ones that were in the old 1.14 tree that tried to allow for
multihosting-mutliwiki easily. There were also TeX parts in the past
which were finicky.

> 2. The upgrade mode is executed for the user when they upgrade by a
> post-install scriptlet. In any case the upgrade procedure is no
> different from an upgrade in PostgreSQL or any other app that requires
> user-interaction on upgrades. This is no reason to keep mediawiki at 1.16.

I don't think that it does either. However, having gotten the emails
for it not always working etc etc.. I get a little gunshy of just
pushing it out without some strong testing. My email was more of a
"this isn't a simple security fix. It is a major upgrade of the
software."

> I don't see any reason to keep mediawiki at 1.16 other than a NRM.
>
> If any FESCo member wants to orphan the package I'll push the update ASAP.
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