[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] packaging of MW extensions

[Gabriel Filion]

On 2010-06-18 06:07, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Gabriel Filion wrote:
> 
>> We've packaged some of those plugins at work (particularly collection
>> and all its dependencies). Take a look at this PPA on Launchpad:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~mediawiki-extensions-dev/+archive/ppa
> 
> OK, I found those two:
> 
>>> • GraphViz
>>>   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz
> 
> Looks good (but has .bzr directories in the tarball,
> and is built as a native package).
> 

Oh, interesting. thanks I'll have a look at it and make sure to remove
those.

>>> • Collection (Wiki → PDF/ODT/…)
>>>   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection
> 
> This has a bug: it’s wgCollectionLicense{Name,URL} and
> not wgLicense{Name,URL} like it says in
> /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions-available/Collection.php
> (but doesn’t matter to me, as they’re commented out anyway,
> and we drive defaults from a system-wide LocalSettings.php
> with customisation options from a per-wiki¹ one).
> 

I'll have a look into that.

> 
> On the other hand: any specific reason you use CDBS?
> 

Hum.. probably not, the package was done during work hours so the faster
it was done the better... I guess I should take Romain's packages as a
skeleton for the next time I package something.

> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Romain Beauxis wrote:
>> I would be more than happy to accept contributions on the mediawiki
>> packages.
> 

Like Thorsten said, I can't really engage myself in maintaining the
packages regularly, but I'd sure like to help (especially if you can
review my packages, that'd help a lot)

The packages for Ubuntu I publish (well, my colleague an I) are on the
launchpad page I mentioned earlier, as for Debian, I have an account on
Alioth but I've never used it yet.. I guess the same packages could be
used for Debian if they meet the distro's requirements. The source
packages can be downloaded directly from launchpad, if you'd like to
review them.

-- 
Gabriel Filion