That's a good idea - but someone have to package currently supported releases, and nobody (debian removed the mediawiki package, as I wrote it in description) is doing it. Upstream is certainly interested in this, but they aren't going to do it by themselves in the near future. [1] MediaWiki 1.19 is not supported since May 2015 and is not getting secuirty updates. It is more dangerous to leave unsupported, not maintained, (possibly-vulnerable) packages, IMO.
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783503#15 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #783503 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783503 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527657 Title: Drop mediawiki from Xenial To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediawiki/+bug/1527657/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
