Jon Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > If we can't provide stable packages then I don't see what value we add > by packaging it at all. I wonder what the ratio of wordpress+debian > users is who use the package versus those that hand-install anyway, and > whether that is something that could ever be feasibly estimated.
As a data point, Stanford University hand-installs Wordpress on our systems that use it. This is mostly for reasons entirely unrelated to the packaging and security issues and is because we need N independent installations per server for different groups that can vary separately and need to support installations into AFS, but the fact that we need to upgrade more aggressively than stable can support is also a factor. We're finding it very hard to use the packaged versions of large web application frameworks for a variety of reasons. One of the big ones is that web developers seem to expect a very fast upgrade cycle that's hard to support in Debian; another is that it is really helpful for web applications to be able to give an entirely independent installation to each major site rather than trying to share the same code. For another example, we were previously using the packaged version of Drupal, but with Drupal 7 are switching to drush-managed independent installations for each site. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d368ow9a....@windlord.stanford.edu