Okay, that sounds reasonable, of course. Surely, it's better to have packages containing only what people really need.
Sorry, if I am not familiar with the processes involved in packaging as this is my first usage of the Debian reporting system. Thus, I also apologize for the duplicate #878263, as I simply did not realize I do not get replies to this issue, automatically. Given the circumstances, my next question would be how to continue at this point. Personally, I would think that LDAP authentication would be a common requirement, but this is not the definition of "reasonably popular". So, how would this be evaluated? Furthermore, upstream support seems to have been dropped: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication Are you by any chance aware of any way to do LDAP authentication, that is still supported?