Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-25 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 03/24/2008 03:53 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. No Problem :-) I asked whether you were running etch because the unstable/testing version of mediawiki doesn't have dependencies that would pull in the stuff you're talking about. I've taken

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. I

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and they receive a lot of complaints about it. So will install myself. The only downside that I need to care myself about security patches. cheers Simon [0]

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:33:49PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: I posted the same topic on Mediawiki admins mailinglist. A Mediawiki developer[0] told that the Debian package is unsupported third-party and they receive a lot of complaints about it. It is usual for upstream developers not

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry. Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task and aptitude still remembers it.

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. Generally or for web applications? Why? cheers Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:45:29PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 03/23/2008 08:49 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: It is usual for upstream developers not to support the debian packages. If you have troubles you should contact the maintainer/file a bug. Generally or for web applications?

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-22 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry. Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task and aptitude still remembers it. Hi Andrei No success. Need to get 257MB/262MB of archives. After

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry. Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task and aptitude still remembers it.

dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-21 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
Hi Debian users I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. Does MediaWiki really have that much dependencies? Do I really need 671 MB wasted diskspace

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: Hi Debian users I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. Does MediaWiki

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. Which

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-21 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 03/21/2008 10:20 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote: Which version of Debian are you running? etch? Yes I am running Etch. What do you get if you add -D to the aptitude install line? Sorry for such a long Copypasta. # aptitude -D install mediawiki mediawiki-extensions Reading package lists...