On 18 January 2013 13:26, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri 18 Jan 2013 01:50:12 PM CST, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> The current "mediawiki" package is several years old at version 1.16. A >> new package, named "mediawiki119" at version 1.19 has been reviewed[1] >> and imported into Fedora. I understand some packages require multiple >> versions to be available, but mediawiki does not require multiple packages. >> >> Why was "mediawiki119" given an approved review? >> >> I only knew about the "mediawiki119" package from the NRM bug[2] on >> "mediawiki". The current version, 1.16, is riddled with security holes >> and will not be updated by upstream. It is important that we either >> update or retire with the current package. >> >> Can we work on merging the two packages? >> >> Michael >> >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820452 >> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=850937 > > > mediawiki119 was approved for EPEL-6 only. It should never have been > built for Fedora. I'm not sure why exactly that got built, but you are > correct. mediawiki119 should be blocked from Fedora and built as > 'mediawiki' instead. Well there are two different people and two different approved items. mediawiki119 is a straight version of mediawiki. The Fedora mediawiki has non-upstream patches for certain features that users of that package rely on. Due to many schema changes it is not a drop in replacement. So it is seperate so if a user has one version of mediawiki115 or 114 they won't have their server whacked by installing an upgrade. I am sorry for not knowing the review was not for all releases. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
