Today texvc was re-accepted for inclusion into Debian. texvc is a TeX validator and converter than can be used with the Math extension to generate PNGs of math equations. It had been removed from Jessie when MediaWiki itself was removed. However, a texvc package is still useful for those who…
In MediaWiki 1.28, MaxSem improved diff limits in the pure PHP diff implementation that ships with MediaWiki core. However Wikimedia and other larger wikis use a PHP extension called wikidiff2, for better performance and additional support for Japanese, Chinese, and Thai. wikidiff2 1.4.1 is now available in Debian unstable and…
Originally posted on Twitter. MediaWiki 1.27 LTS is now in Debian unstable! https://tracker.debian.org/news/783855
Originally posted on Twitter. Teaser of MediaWiki 1.27 LTS on PHP 7 using a Debian package!
Originally posted on Twitter. My first Debian package! https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/mediawiki_1:1.25.5-1.html
Over the past few months I've been working on an updated Debian package for MediaWiki. After working with Luke, Faidon, Moritz, and a few others, we now have a mostly working package! It's being developed in Gerrit (the mediawiki/debian repository), so it hopefully will get more visibility, and we can…
