On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:51:30 +0200 Jan Bergner <be...@janbergner.de> wrote: > This package already existed in Wheezy and Jessie and was removed as > obsolete, when mediawiki itself was dropped: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=810127 > > Since mediawiki was reintroduced, it would be nice to also have the > extensions back.
The group of extensions in the previous mediawiki-extensions package was a mixed bag of random extensions that someone at some particular point in time wanted. Some are not maintained anymore, severely outdated, and won't work with modern versions of MediaWiki. On the other hand, others are included in the "mediawiki" package itself and receive security and maintenance updates from the MediaWiki core development team. > Personally, I want to set up a mediawiki with LDAP authentication and it > would seem to make sence to have this available not only by manual > installation, but for all debian administrators. The LDAP authentication extension for MediaWiki has no upstream maintainer currently, and anyone should be wary of taking on the responsibility for security support for it. I (personally) am open to packaging some MediaWiki extensions, but I think they would need to be reasonably popular, and have an active upstream contributor that would be willing to assist with security support. So instead of setting up another random grab bag of extensions, I'd rather see individual extensions packaged, e.g.: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871580 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871594 -- Kunal
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