mediawiki package split

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 18 January 2013 13:26, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri 18 Jan 2013 01:50:12 PM CST, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> 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.
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>> Why was "mediawiki119" given an approved review?
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>> 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.
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>> Can we work on merging the two packages?
>>
>> Michael
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>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820452
>> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850937
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> mediawiki119 was approved for EPEL-6 only. It should never have been
> built for Fedora. I'm not sure why exactly that got built, but you are
> correct. mediawiki119 should be blocked from Fedora and built as
> 'mediawiki' instead.

Well there are two different people and two different approved items.
mediawiki119 is a straight version of mediawiki. The Fedora mediawiki
has non-upstream patches for certain features that users of that
package rely on. Due to many schema changes it is not a drop in
replacement. So it is seperate so if a user has one version of
mediawiki115 or 114 they won't have their server whacked by installing
an upgrade.

I am sorry for not knowing the review was not for all releases.

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