Re: [Semediawiki-user] Semantic MediaWiki now in Debian

[Dan B. <dan...@gm...>]

On 5 May 2011 16:11, Jeroen De Dauw <jer...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I actually had a look at the state of the packages a bit over a week back,
> and they are seriously outdated. So much that you really can't call it
> maintained any more. I poked some MW devs on the IRC about this, and
> basically no one cares enough to fix the issue, and instead just recommend
> to everyone not to use these packages.
>
> In any case, it's ridiculous that you can't install openId and SMW at the
> same time, there is no reason why this should be the case. Bad packages are
> bad...

Yeah, its a shame. The presence of an outdated and unloved package is
almost worse than no package at all, however, lets not give up hope on
John Ferlito coming to our rescue :-D

For sysadmins there is a huge win when something is packaged.

The deps for the packages involved here just seem a bit snarled up,
and should be easy enough to resolve, but it seems package maintenance
is a thankless task.


> Cheers
>
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> Jeroen De Dauw
> http://www.bn2vs.com
> Don't panic. Don't be evil.
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