On Mon, 09 Jul 2012, Oliver Burger wrote: > Hi there, > > our current (and out of date) mediawiki package has the following layout: > mediawiki-minimal: a normal mediawiki installation without math support > mediawiki: a full installation including math support > > As of mediawiki-1.18 upstream has removed the math part from the main > project into an external extension. > So I could either: > use mediawiki itself as a meta package, just requiring mediawiki-minimal > and (the to be packaged) mediawiki-math which should not break any > exisiting installation or I could rename mediawiki-minimal to mediawiki and > package mediawiki-math as an additional extension. > This would require people to install mediawiki-math manually after > upgrading.
Maybe you can rename mediawiki-minimal to mediawiki and package mediawiki-math. And make mediawiki obsolete mediawiki-minimal < 1.18 and mediawiki-math obsolete mediawiki < 1.18, so that the upgrade works.
