Hello,

replying to myself, I forgot to mention:

Am 03/23/2016 um 12:41 AM schrieb Jan Lühr:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> Am 03/22/2016 um 06:50 PM schrieb Legoktm:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/22/2016 03:52 AM, Jan Lühr wrote:
>>
>>> Thinking about release intervals, Debian is way slower compared to
>>> mediawiki - thus Debian's packages for mediawiki become outdated with
>>> very high probability. Is there a chance to see debian packages built by
>>> mediawiki some day soon?
>>
>> The MediaWiki LTS cycle actually lines up pretty closely with the Debian
>> release cycle.
> 
> Ok .. well, I'm not that into mediawiki.
> 
>> I'm currently working on getting an updated version of MediaWiki into
>> Debian, 
> 
> That's great! Thanks a lot!

Another option is to integrated Debian packing into mediawiki's CI (aka
jenkins).

If the mediawiki's release process is "good", there's hardly any
maintenance work todo: Updating dependency definitions and distro names
according to debian is the only thing I've in my mind atm.

However, this requires mediawiki's release process to include tested
upgrade routines:
For instance: If a database-update is needed, having a readme-file
mentioning some manual steps is not enough.
This somewhat implies that there are integration-tests for
upgrade-scripts that are
a) integrated into the release process and
b) can be used by the debian packaging jobs
If this is up'n'running, packing for ubuntu is easy to add.

I don't know if mediawiki is there. I cannot say anything about the
shape of the release-process or likelihood of this setup.

Greet, yanosz


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