[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] MediaWiki patches in Debian.

[Mark A. Hershberger]

On 06/11/2012 04:42 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
>
>> I especially like the idea of an /etc/mediawiki.d config directory.
> We have something like that in mediawiki-extensions-base,
> with a set of scripts (mwenext/mwdisext) similar to those
> shipped with Apache 2, so the sysadmin can manually enable
> (and disable again) extensions.

Excellent.

>> So yes, I'm happy we are improving collaboration packagers <-> upstream.
> Agreed.

In order to help this collaboration -- and in recognition of my own
knowledge gaps when it comes to MW code -- I'm adding wikitech-l to the
CC list. (Original message is here:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mediawiki-devel/2012-June/002008.html)

> By the way, here™ we have more local patches; please tell me what you
> think about them (currently against 1.15):
>
> === modified file 'debian/changelog'
> --- debian/changelog	2012-05-30 14:51:27 +0000
> +++ debian/changelog	2012-05-30 14:52:41 +0000
> @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
> +mediawiki (1:1.15.5-10tarent1) unstable; urgency=low
> +
> +  [ Thorsten Glaser ]
> +  * debian/patches/tarent.patch: new
> +    - includes/specials/SpecialAllpages.php:
> +      raise $maxPerPage, $maxLineCount
> +    - includes/DefaultSettings.php: add webdavs:// and file: support
> +  * debian/control: prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL in Depends/Recommends

Could you help me understand the changes the rational for increasing
maxPerPage and maxLineCount by two orders of magnitude?  Is there any
benefit to showing 30,000 pages on an index sub-page?

> +
> +  [ Roland Mas ]
> +  * debian/patches/tarent.patch: add workaround for search bug
Has this been passed upstream?  It looks like the version check should
be removed.

Thanks for asking for the input.
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