[arch-general] PCRE 8.34-1 Upgrade breaks expected regex behavior for MediaWiki

[Allan McRae]

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