Hello everyone!
I need some advice... I am currently stuck on MediaWiki 1.39.2 and can't
upgrade to newer versions within this LTS release.
I am using PluggableAuth and SimpleSAMLphp to authenticate users to our
wikis. Starting with MW 1.39.3, these extensions were updated to newer
versions (7.0.0) that don't work any more, at least with PostgreSQL as
database (see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348543). I am still
using MW 1.39.2 with versions 6.2 of PluggableAuth and 5.0.1 of
SimpleSAMLphp.
I would like to combine MW 1.39.6 with the older versions of the
extensions, but here
https://extdist.wmflabs.org/dist/extensions/
only the newer ones are available.
I have tried to use composer (with which I have zero knowledge and IMHO
the documentation is ... challenging), and I was able to install
MediaWiki itself and PluggableAuth via composer, but not SimpleSAMLphp.
This extensions seems to be completely unknown to composer.
Switching from PostgreSQL to MySQL is a last resort. The migration does
not seem to be straight forward at all, and it is even unclear if it
would solve my problem in the first place.
Any ideas how to move forward are welcome!
Maybe what I really would like to ask for is: Don't make major updates
to (essential) extensions within an LTS release of MediaWiki, please
coordinate them with major updates of MediaWiki core.
Cheers,
Joern
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Jörn Clausen
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bits