[Mageia-dev] Mediawiki packaging changes
nicolas vigier
boklm at mars-attacks.org
Mon Jul 9 11:27:53 CEST 2012
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012, Oliver Burger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> our current (and out of date) mediawiki package has the following layout:
> mediawiki-minimal: a normal mediawiki installation without math support
> mediawiki: a full installation including math support
>
> As of mediawiki-1.18 upstream has removed the math part from the main
> project into an external extension.
> So I could either:
> use mediawiki itself as a meta package, just requiring mediawiki-minimal
> and (the to be packaged) mediawiki-math which should not break any
> exisiting installation or I could rename mediawiki-minimal to mediawiki and
> package mediawiki-math as an additional extension.
> This would require people to install mediawiki-math manually after
> upgrading.
Maybe you can rename mediawiki-minimal to mediawiki and package
mediawiki-math. And make mediawiki obsolete mediawiki-minimal < 1.18
and mediawiki-math obsolete mediawiki < 1.18, so that the upgrade works.
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