[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] [hendry@iki.fi: mediawiki in unstable]

[Marc Dequènes (Duck)]

Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi> writes:

> I am eager to get hold of the mediawiki packages. Can't figure out how
> to access the NEW queue. And the alioth page doesn't mention any
> "releases". So could someone please point out the location of them?

I'm using unstable packages on my server using testing, so sarge should
not be a problem.

Take it here: (in the unstable distrib of course)
     http://debian.duckcorp.org/

> How long will it take to hit unstable? I have a sarge machine that I
> want to run mediawiki on for a user manual. Do you think there will be
> any problems? Are there backports?

Some days i would say.

> http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=345894
>
> "In general the upgrade from 1.4 to 1.5 schema has not been tested for
> all cases, and there may be problems."
>
> There looks like quite a leap from 1.4 to 1.5. Would it not be wise to
> start working on packaging 1.5?

Not yet, read on:
"These things should be fixed by the time 1.5.0 final is released:"

Packaging 1.5.x itself would probably not be so difficult, the upgrade
path is indeed the difficult part, but without a final or nearly final
upgrade path from upstream, there's nothing to work with. They said they
want it done for final release, so we should wait for it. We can still
have a look to changes, but i guess only the SQL part would be tricky.

-- 
Marc Dequènes (Duck)
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