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=== hikiko is now known as hikiko|ln
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tlyui'm affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mediawiki/+bug/1347656 in Trusty. is it better to request a backport of the 1.19.15 fix to 1.19.14 as SRU or to request an update to 1.19.15 as SRU?20:00
ubot5Ubuntu bug 1347656 in mediawiki (Ubuntu) "Changing password does not work for newly registered users with generated passwords" [Undecided,Fix released]20:00
tewardtlyu: a backport won't 'fix' the bug - it'll only exist in the Backports repository.  It may be better to apply the fix as an SRU, but keep in mind that 1.19.x is *not* supported upstream by MediaWiki, and likely receives no security updates unless the community provides them to the Security Team for review20:08
tlyuoh, interesting. mediawiki apparently got removed from Debian, but there's an open ITP for 1.25?20:19
tewardtlyu: lets keep in mind that mediawiki being dropped is likely due to many reasons20:19
tewardtlyu: the headachey part is that the old packages tend to go EOL really fast20:20
teward(End of Life, upstream)20:20
tewardthis is partly why I only roll MediaWiki out via my own code pushes and tarballs20:20
teward(which are based on MediaWiki upstream, but only to my servers direct)20:20
* teward shrugs20:20
tlyuok i'm seeing how far behind 1.19.15 is on security patches, so maybe updating Trusty to 1:1.19.20+dfsg-2.3 (most recent in Debian Stable) might be a good idea20:48
tlyuLOL both the Ubuntu and the MediaWiki official documentation recommend avoiding the Ubuntu MediaWiki packages because they're old21:04
tewardtlyu: yes, I recommend avoiding them as well21:04
tewardthough i have to because I roll their 'experimental' postgresql support :P21:04
wxlsheesh21:04
wxlisn't it 2016?21:04
wxlincidentially that wouldn't be the first case where someone does not recommend the ubuntu packages21:05
wxlsome things are under heavy development and take a little too long to get downstream to us21:05
tewardwxl: for pre-Xenial, I always strongly-recommend using the NGINX Stable PPA xD21:06
tewardbut again, that's a special case since I maintain that too ;)21:06
wxlthere's othercases, as with virtualbox, where you're more likely to get upstream support if you actually use their packages AND they're often more stable21:06
tewardyup21:07
tewardwxl: phpmyadmin comes to mind too, security reasons.21:07
wxlyuuup21:08

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