On 2024-09-20 05:07, Kunal Mehta wrote:
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
Good point - I think I would be willing to mark it obsolete and remove.
(I need to check, it might have been a dep of something else)
Alastair
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