The upstream support for mediawiki 1.19 was dropped by May 2015. Sent from iPhone https://revi.me GPG KeyID: 0xbeff197a
2014. 11. 14. 05:23 Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> 작성: > Hi all, > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 01:04:35PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> Hi Thorsten >> >> Op vrijdag 26 september 2014 15:28:55 schreef Thorsten Glaser: >>> Failure to do so will mean shipping Mediawiki 1.19 in >>> jessie, which is currently upstream’s oldstable and >>> fading LTS. Mediawiki 1.23 is upstream’s current LTS; >>> we have an agreement from upstream to support 1.19 for >>> the lifetime of wheezy, and I guess they’d be willing >>> to extend the same for 1.23 and jessie, but I’d not >>> want to ask them to do that for 1.19. The delivery of >>> the security updates from upstream to Debian (both >>> stable and unstable) has been good so far, with only >>> a few minor bumps on the road (releases come out when >>> I go to bed, roughly, and I do not always have time, >>> and certain people submit unwanted bugreports about >>> new versions nobody asked for), and no concerns from >>> the stable-security team so far, so it’s been productive. >> >> Agreed; I think it's required that we ship 1.23 in Jessie in order to keep >> the >> current security support strategy sustainable. So this needs to happen. >> >>> If anyone’s got a rough overview of what changed between >>> 1.19 and 1.23 for/from a packager’s PoV, thank you for >>> pointing it out to me. >> >> I cannot help you with testing the packages since I do not use them. >> However, I'm maintaining one large Mediawiki installation which for >> hysterical reasons does not use the package, and I can say that >> upgrading from 1.19 to 1.23 was easy and didn't re quire any >> infrastructural changes. So I'm rather confident that this will also >> not present large issues in the packaging. > > Going through some older mails I noticed this thread again. We > unfortunately are now defintively late for mediawiki 1.23 for Jessie. > Do we know something about the remaining time upstream will support > 1.19? Is it realistic that we could for the jessie cycle be able to > support this version (and does it actually makes sense?). > > Just a bunch of question, for which I don't have a clear answer. > Removing mediawiki for jessie also does possibly not really seem to be > an option. > > Regards, > Salvatore >