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
