[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#719208: mediawiki: md5sums for Renameuser{.alias, .i18n, _body}.php files are incorrect

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, Zachary Harris wrote:

>   Here is my attempt to find matching filenames between the two packages:

It’s not about matching filenames:

>   And then we can see the overlap, for example:
> 
> $ dpkg -S "*/Interwiki.php" "*/Convert.php"
> mediawiki: /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/interwiki/Interwiki.php
> mediawiki-extensions-base:
> /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/base/Interwiki/Interwiki.php

There is clearly no overlap.

This is about extensions that used to be not provided by the
mediawiki base package but suddenly are. We are aware of the
issue, and no further analysis is required.

Thanks to dpkg cowardly refusing to deal with symlinks to
directories in any way, fixing this is absolutely nontrivial.

If I were to upload a mediawiki-extensions package without
the two in question now, but without including code to fixup
this issue on upgrade for existing users, the situation would
even worsen(!). So we’ll need to continue doing this until we
get a real fix in a maintainer script.

And, I fear I can’t quite wrap my head around the entirety of
the upgrade fixups required ☹

bye,
//mirabilos
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