[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#689375: mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor: "addMessages()" error. Extension was declared obsolete and not supported since MW 1.17

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

#this is rc
severity 689375 grave
thanks

On 2012-10-02 09:09, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Robert Fleming wrote:
>
>> There is a patch of unknown quality for making this work with 
>> MediaWiki 1.19 here:
>>
>>   
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:WYSIWYG/Patch_for_MW_1.19#Patch_for_MW_1.19_13100
>
> Hrm. I’ve never used fckeditor myself, and nobody said anything
> about this during the call for testing.
>
>> It seems the future (but not yet present) of visual editing in
>> MediaWiki is <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor>.
>
> So what do you suggest? We could apply the patch and hope
> for the best (if the release team allows) or drop the
> mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor package and make the new
> version of mediawiki-extensions-base Conflict with it,
> to ensure it’s gone, but we will not be able to package
> VisualEditor for wheezy now, that we’re in the freeze.

The patch is way too big for a freeze exception (and entirely 
inappropriate in its current form anyway). VisualEditor is, to quote 
upstream, "not nearly ready for real-world applications yet". At this 
stage of a freeze your only sensible option, technically, is to remove 
the extension (please ensure there is a NEWS entry for this change, to 
avoid breaking upgrades). Local administrators can take the decision 
whether to run that patch on their systems, we should not decide this 
for them.

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Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw at debian.org
Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

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