Item12219: bundled extensions should be pulled in via "Depends" instead of packaged and added to "Provides" in debian package

The foswiki debian package bundles some extensions and mentions those in their "Provides" line. You cannot update those bundled extensions via apt-get, because if you try to install the extensions package it says that the files are already in the foswiki package. It would be better to remove the bundled extensions from the foswiki package and instead add the stand-alone extension packages to the "Depends" line of the foswiki package. Then it would be possible to upgrade the extensions independently from foswiki. Currently e. g. 1.1.5-3 has old versions of TinyMCEPlugin, WysiwygPlugin and MailerContrib and the only way to upgrade them is to either force dpkg to overwrite the files or upgrade them from the configure script which would both disturb the next update of the foswiki package.

-- BjoernKautler - 02 Nov 2012

Ok, updating the foswiki package is not disturbed at least when using configure to upgrade the bundled extensions, but I'd really prefer upgrading from one place and not from two.

-- BjoernKautler - 02 Nov 2012

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