Topic on Talk:Parsoid

Parsoid is being ported to PHP where it will be distributed as part of core.

So... there's no way to downgrade to parsoid 0.8.0 using apt.

> sudo apt-get install parsoid=0.8.0all
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '0.8.0all' for 'parsoid' was not found

> sudo apt-cache policy parsoid
parsoid:
  Installed: 0.9.0all
  Candidate: 0.9.0all
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.0all 500
        500 https://releases.wikimedia.org/debian jessie-mediawiki/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status                                             

Why there's not a proper way to handle versions in wikimedia's debian repository?

The only way to downgrade is to download the deb from https://people.wikimedia.org/~ssastry/parsoid/debs/ (and pray that nobody hacked it)

Note that apt-mark hold parsoid doesn't work when you're installing the package for the first time!

We use reprepro to create the Debian repository (not the full dak used by Debian) - I'm not sure whether it supports having multiple versions of a package.

Providing PGP signatures for https://people.wikimedia.org/~ssastry/parsoid/debs/ (or some better management of older versions) is definitely something we should improve.