mediawiki package split

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Fri Jan 18 19:50:12 UTC 2013


The current "mediawiki" package is several years old at version 1.16. A
new package, named "mediawiki119" at version 1.19 has been reviewed[1]
and imported into Fedora. I understand some packages require multiple
versions to be available, but mediawiki does not require multiple packages.

Why was "mediawiki119" given an approved review?

I only knew about the "mediawiki119" package from the NRM bug[2] on
"mediawiki". The current version, 1.16, is riddled with security holes
and will not be updated by upstream. It is important that we either
update or retire with the current package.

Can we work on merging the two packages?

Michael

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820452
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850937


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