[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#689375: mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor: "addMessages()" error. Extension was declared obsolete and not supported since MW 1.17

[Robert Fleming]

Package: mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor
Version: 2.6+wheezy1
Severity: important

1. Installed mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor (tried wheezy, sid, and experimental) with mediawiki=1:1.19.1-1 (wheezy).
2. "mwenext FCKeditor.php"
3. Web server returns "HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error"
4. Apache error log:
   
     PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function addMessages() on a non-object in /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/fckeditor/FCKeditor.body.php on line 283, referer: http://wiki-new/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&

>From http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_(Official):
  "This extension is obsolete!"
  Supported MediaWiki versions: "1.16.x and 1.17.x".

There is a patch of unknown quality for making this work with MediaWiki 1.19 here:
  
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Extension_talk:WYSIWYG/Patch_for_MW_1.19#Patch_for_MW_1.19_13100

It seems the future (but not yet present) of visual editing in
MediaWiki is <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:VisualEditor>.

Thanks,
Robert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor depends on:
ii  fckeditor                  1:2.6.6-3
ii  mediawiki-extensions-base  2.6+wheezy1

mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor recommends no packages.

mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor suggests no packages.

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