[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#396396: mediawiki1.7: Upgrade from version 1.4 removes old installation prematurely.

[Bastiaan Veelo]

Package: mediawiki1.7
Version: 1.7.1-3
Severity: normal

When upgrading from version 1.4 to version 1.7, I am notified that the upgrade has to be 
done manually, which is OK, but it does not mention that the existing installation will be 
removed when continuing, and there is no option presented to abort the installation.

This leads to a long down-time until I have manually upgraded the installation.

Regards,
Bastiaan.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 depends on:
ii  apache2                       2.2.3-2    Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]   2.0.55-4.1 traditional model for Apache2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.6      Debian configuration management sy
ii  mime-support                  3.37-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php5                          5.1.6-4    server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-cli                      5.1.6-4    command-line interpreter for the p
ii  php5-mysql                    5.1.6-4    MySQL module for php5

Versions of packages mediawiki1.7 recommends:
ii  mysql-server                  5.0.24a-9  mysql database server (current ver
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.24a-9  mysql database server binaries

-- debconf information:
  mediawiki/webserver: apache2
  mediawiki/upgrade-1d5: true
* mediawiki/upgrade-1d4:
  mediawiki/upgrade-1d5-adminuser: root