[Fusionforge-general] On packaging Mediawiki 1.23 for Debian jessie, but not wheezy

[Sylvain Beucler - Inria]

Le 2014-10-01 11:25, Thorsten Glaser a écrit :
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Sylvain Beucler - Inria wrote:
>
>> Debian also has this horrible thing called "non-upstream patch" which is also
>> known worldwide as the OpenSSL predictable random number generator
>> vulnerability ;)
> Yeah ;-)
>
>> So I'd recommend considering the upstream PoV first, and then let it flow down
>> to distros (rather than the other way around).
> You’re free to do that. I’ll be uploading Mediawiki 1.23 to Debian.
> It’s your choice if that Breaks: fusionforge, then, if FF does not
> support it…

I'm talking to you as a FusionForge contributor.
There's no "you're free" or "your choice", it's "we/our", you included.
So what do you mean?

> I’ll ask before uploading a patched FF to Debian experimental, of
> course.
>
>> A wheezy-backports upload may smooth things, as long as the changes in
>> MediaWiki itself aren't invasive.
> If they’re not invasive, FF doesn’t need to be patched.

I mean from the user PoV, they already got an unexpected stable-release 
change with the rebuilding of SCM stats, so I'll be careful about 
introducing a new MediaWiki.

> I will not be supporting a backport of mediawiki. It’s enough
> maintenance work already, and not tested enough (I broke one
> security upload completely, and do not want a repeat of that).