Re: pkg/41789: Update www/mediawiki 1.13.5 -> 1.14.1

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41789; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41789: Update www/mediawiki 1.13.5 -> 1.14.1
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:21:46 +0000

 On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:05:04AM +0000, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
  >  I read this on mediawiki.org:
  >  
  >  "If your MediaWiki installation is heavily modified, it may be  
  >  difficult to incorporate the latest official changes/updates to  
  >  MediaWiki. To support such users, we maintain old branches of our code  
  >  for up to a year."
  >  
  >  Therefore I thought mediawiki-1.14.1 would be the best release to  
  >  backport to pkgsrc-2009Q2, in order to fix the security issue in the  
  >  older release.
  >  
  >  I can fix patches for mediawiki-1.15.1 to current if someone backport  
  >  1.14.1 to pkgsrc-2009Q2 first...
  >  Deal? :-)
 
 Fair enough... now this just needs to attract the attention of someone
 who knows enough about mediawiki to commit the patch. :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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