Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[Kunal Mehta]

On 03/10/2016 09:25 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> Is there any update or status on this?

The package was rejected from the NEW queue last week due to some
upstream copyright issues and lintian warnings. These issues have now
been resolved and my sponsor should be uploading the new version to the
NEW queue shortly. In the meantime, the packages are available at
 if you'd like to give
them a try. :)

> As it has been more than two months since the filing of the ITP, and
> nearly as long since the last bug activity, I am left a little bit in
> Limbo on this; I can neither move forward independently of any Debian
> package, nor plan around the expected arrival schedule of the updated
> Debian package.

I don't have a good idea on how long it'll take to go through the review
process, sorry.

> (Also, the version of MediaWiki in Debian stable does not seem to behave
> as documented; the only in-Debian documentation I've found directs the
> sysadmin to configure the package via a Web interface, but on a machine
> which has had mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 installed - with its
> dependencies, including Apache - and no other special configuration
> performed, Apache does not expose the described Web interface. Which
> isn't relevant to this bug, except that it means I can't just start out
> with the already-packaged version and expect to be able to upgrade that
> if-and-when the new version gets packaged.)

I am currently packaging 1.25.x, and will update it to 1.27.x (LTS) once
it is released in May. IIRC, the old package required you to manually
edit the Apache config and uncomment some lines. The new package
automatically sets up the proper config, which includes allowing use of
the web installer and upgrader.

-- Kunal

Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[The Wanderer]

Is there any update or status on this?

Before realizing that Debian's MediaWiki packages were out of date and
were not included in testing, I committed to setting up an in-house Wiki
at my workplace, to be present and functional by the end of June.

If it were going to be dropped from Debian entirely, I could fall back
on installing and configuring MediaWiki separately, rather than via the
Debian packaging system. However, if (as this bug indicates) it's going
to be reintroduced through Debian, I would prefer not to install an
unpackaged version and then need to deal with either upgrading it
manually or migrating across to the packaged version.

As it has been more than two months since the filing of the ITP, and
nearly as long since the last bug activity, I am left a little bit in
Limbo on this; I can neither move forward independently of any Debian
package, nor plan around the expected arrival schedule of the updated
Debian package.

(Also, the version of MediaWiki in Debian stable does not seem to behave
as documented; the only in-Debian documentation I've found directs the
sysadmin to configure the package via a Web interface, but on a machine
which has had mediawiki 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 installed - with its
dependencies, including Apache - and no other special configuration
performed, Apache does not expose the described Web interface. Which
isn't relevant to this bug, except that it means I can't just start out
with the already-packaged version and expect to be able to upgrade that
if-and-when the new version gets packaged.)

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[Paul Wise]

On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:45 -0800, Kunal Mehta wrote:

> I've skimmed through the closed bugs, will take a closer look at them
> shortly.

They will be soon archived, so make sure to look at archived ones too.

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pabs

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Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[Kunal Mehta]

On 01/08/2016 09:23 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> Please remember to follow the steps needed when reintroducing packages:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs

Thanks for the link :-) The package was removed because it was severely
out of date, using a version that has known security issues, and no
active maintainers to update it. I've asked on the
Pkg-mediawiki-devel[2] list if anyone else is interested in helping out.

The new package is based on the old one, however it was extremely old
that a lot of it was either removed or replaced (no-longer needed
patches, references to apache-ssl, etc.).

I've skimmed through the closed bugs, will take a closer look at them
shortly.

[1]
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mediawiki-devel/2016-January/003204.html

Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Kunal Mehta wrote:

> This package was formerly in Debian and removed due to a lack of active
> maintainers and updates. I am an active upstream developer who uses
> the software.

Please remember to follow the steps needed when reintroducing packages:

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#reintroducing-pkgs

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#810290: ITP: mediawiki -- website engine for collaborative work

[Kunal Mehta]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Kunal Mehta 

* Package name: mediawiki
  Version : 1.25.5
  Upstream Author : MediaWiki developers 
* URL : https://www.mediawiki.org/
* License : GPL-2.0+
  Programming Lang: PHP
  Description : website engine for collaborative work

MediaWiki is a wiki engine (a program for creating a collaboratively
edited website). It is designed to handle heavy websites containing
library-like document collections, and supports user uploads of
images/sounds, multilingual content, TOC autogeneration, ISBN links,
etc.

Moreover, it keeps track of changes, so users can receive
notifications, view diffs and revert edits. This system has many
other features and can easily be extended.

This package was formerly in Debian and removed due to a lack of active
maintainers and updates. I am an active upstream developer who uses
the software.