Package: mediawiki Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Context ------------ FreedomBox, a Debian pure blend for home servers, provides MediaWiki as an application. FreedomBox also manages updates of all the installed packages (using the unattended-updates package). FreedomBox makes releases of the freedombox package every 2 weeks, which are sent to end users via the stable-backports channel. The FreedomBox project doesn't expect users to be proficient with the commandline interface or have any knowledge of system administration. Problem ------------ Whenever the MediaWiki package is updated, it is expected that the system administrator runs an update.php script to do database migrations. If thepackage goes through an upgrade and this script is not run, MediaWiki is left in
an unusable state. Current workaround ------------------------------This issue is being fixed currently by triggering update.php from FreedomBox (by
incrementing the version number of the MediaWiki app in FreedomBox). In the worst case, a user needs to wait 2 weeks (i.e. the next release of the freedombox package) for a fix. See [1] as an example of this problem. Proposed long-term solution ------------------------------------------ Provide support in the Debian package for FreedomBox's use case. If the user installed MediaWiki database using dbconfig and answered positively to a question to auto-update the database, then run update.php during package upgrade. Please feel free to discuss this issue at [1] on Salsa. Links: 1. https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/issues/2119 Regards, Joseph Nuthalapati (on behalf of the FreedomBox team)
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