[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#703852: Bug#703852: [mediawiki] mw{en, dis}ext ineffective for new installs

[Thorsten Glaser]

tags 703852 + pending
thanks

On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Filipus Klutiero wrote:

> The scripts mwenext and mwdisext are supposed to respectively enable and
> disable a MediaWiki extension. But this doesn't work anymore on new installs
> following
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-mediawiki?view=revision&revision=261

Oh.

> Although most of debian_specific_config.patch may have been merged the
> upstream, the last part hasn't. It is needed to load
> /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions.php, which is the basis of the extensions
> mechanism.

Thanks, added it back (for now, in SVN).

> I recommend that the snippet above be restored, but in system files rather
> than in LocalSettings.php. The snippet is necessary for the Debian
> mediawiki-extensions system to work, so it is not local configuration.

No, LocalSettings.php is the place this *must* go (which is also
the reason e.g. I didn’t notice it earlier, as the FusionForge
LocalSettings contain this inclusion) because it doesn’t use the
require_once statement. Adding it *also* in some other place
would include it twice, which *will* break existing installations,
both these where it’s part of the admin’s setup and these where
it’s part of the code (such as fusionforge-plugin-mediawiki).
Yeah, that’s sad.

Maybe we should note this in NEWS.Debian or something? jmw?

> By the way, the extensions list needs an update at least for Interwiki.

Which list, where?

Thanks,
//mirabilos
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