[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Fwd: Re: MediaWiki tarballs and the WMF

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Chad wrote:

> update.php can be run as often as you need. It does need to be run
> every time MediaWiki or its extensions are upgraded or a new
> extension is added. No need to run it at uninstallation time (nothing
> new will happen--any custom tables/fields added by an extension
> will continue to exist in your database).

OK, thanks.

Jonathan, how do you want to handle this in Debian?
Did I read you correctly that update.php is currently
never called automatically at all?

On the FF side, we’re calling it “often enough”.

bye,
//mirabilos
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