An update on MediaWiki 1.31 in Debian
Following the MediaWiki 1.31.1 security release, I was finally able to update the Debian package to 1.31 LTS in preparation for the Debian Buster release.
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2018-08 MediaWiki security update
The #MediaWiki security update has been pushed to #Debian stable after a few hiccups (thanks Moritz!): https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00232.htmlI also pushed an update for Xenial users to my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~legoktm/+archive/ubuntu/mediawiki-ltsThose packages are for 1.27, which is the older LTS version. 1.31 hit unstable today, so I'll be providing backports for it shortly!…
Value in using Linux packages
What's the value in using Linux packages for your software vs installing from git? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/06/msg00097.html explained it really well. The explanation I tell people for MediaWiki is that if you want a wiki that just works and would like to forget about administering it - use the Debian package. If…
New tool: Wikimedia APT browser
I've created a new tool to make it easier for humans to browse Wikimedia's APT repository: apt.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia's servers run Debian (Ubuntu is nearly phased out), and for the most part use the standard packages that Debian provides. But in some cases we use software that isn't in the official…
MediaWiki 1.30.0 is now in Debian unstable
#MediaWiki 1.30.0 is now in #Debian unstableThis is a short term transition to help test something that is close to the next LTS version: 1.31 (out in June!).https://tracker.debian.org/news/949012/accepted-mediawiki-11300-1-source-into-unstable/
Leaving alioth
The MediaWiki packaging team for Debian (just me really) is now fully off of the deprecated alioth.debian.org! https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mediawiki-devel/2018-January/003271.html