[arch-general] PCRE 8.34-1 Upgrade breaks expected regex behavior for MediaWiki
Hello All, The most recent upgrade to pcre 8.34-1 seems to disallow group names starting with a digit. A quote from the PCRE news.txt [1]:
"Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this change also in PCRE."
I found this bug report[2] on the mediawiki site that apparently has a working patch though I'll probably just downgrade until the patch is in the official package. This breaks my MediaWiki install with the following error in the httpd/error.log:
PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: group name must start with a non-digit at offset 8 in /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/includes/MagicWord.php on line 907
I'm not sure how Arch would handle this since it is an upstream bug. If someone needs any other info let me know. [1] http://pcre.org/news.txt [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58640 -- Pete
On 30/12/13 14:45, Peter Baldridge wrote:
Hello All,
The most recent upgrade to pcre 8.34-1 seems to disallow group names starting with a digit. A quote from the PCRE news.txt [1]:
"Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this change also in PCRE."
I found this bug report[2] on the mediawiki site that apparently has a working patch though I'll probably just downgrade until the patch is in the official package.
This breaks my MediaWiki install with the following error in the httpd/error.log:
PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: group name must start with a non-digit at offset 8 in /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/includes/MagicWord.php on line 907
I'm not sure how Arch would handle this since it is an upstream bug. If someone needs any other info let me know.
[1] http://pcre.org/news.txt [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58640
Bugs should be reported to the bug tracker where the maintainer of the mediawiki package will see it (and may backport any patch applied upstream). Allan
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Allan McRae
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Peter Baldridge