Bug#578691: libmediawiki-perl: Security update of mediawiki will break login API

[Ansgar Burchardt]

clone     578691 -1
reassign  -1 release.debian.org
retitle   -1 pu: package libmediawiki-perl_1.13-1+lenny1
submitter -1 ansgar at 2008.43-1.org
user      release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
usertags  -1 + pu
thanks

Hi,

Raphael Geissert <geissert at debian.org> writes:

>> the planned security update for mediawiki/1.12.0-2lenny5 will break
>> libmediawiki-perl: the Perl module will no longer be able to log in [1].
>> I prepared a patch for this problem (attached).
[...]
> libmediawiki-perl should be updated via a SPU. Please coordinate with the 
> release team.
>
> The package already fails to login to sites that have been upgraded, such as 
> wikipedia. The bug report was mainly to give a heads up.

I have changed the distribution to stable (instead of stable-security).
The diff between 1.13-1 and the proposed updated is attached once more.
Should we go ahead with the upload?

Regards,
Ansgar

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