Hi Helmut, Thanks for filing this.
On 9/19/24 15:28, Helmut Grohne wrote:
# dpkg --verify missing /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/vistrails missing /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/vistrails/README missing /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/vistrails/download.php missing /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/vistrails/functions.php missing /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions/vistrails/vistrailsExtension.php
TIL that vistrails ships a MediaWiki extension. There's no dependency on mediawiki, otherwise I would've learned of this earlier. Just from skimming the code, I can tell that it's broken with MediaWiki 1.39 (possibly earlier), which shipped in bookworm.
Fundamentally, this is an aliasing problem. /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions should either become a real directory in mediawiki or must not be installed to by vistrails. Please figure out which package needs to change.
In e.g. mediawiki-extension-youtube, the files are directly installed in /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/YouTube - that's what I think vistrails should do, if it's actually a working extension.
I noticed that <https://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Main_Page> says that VisTrails hasn't been maintained for 6 years now. Is this package still useful, especially the MediaWiki part? Alastair, hopefully you can advise.
Thanks, Kunal
