Re: Problem migrating from 1.38.5 to 1.39.1 due to Composer dependencies

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 2:26 PM Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> MediaWiki requires Composer 2 and will not work with Composer 1 any
> more. I have ran into the same issue myself
> (https://github.com/MatmaRex/patchdemo/issues/501).
>
> It's not clear to me whether this is a bug or an intentional
> compatibility break. Looks like
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316556 is a bug report about this,
> but it's also connected to a task about dropping compatibility, so I
> wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to be fixed.
>
> You will need to either:
>
> * Upgrade your Ubuntu to a version that ships with Composer 2 – looking
> at https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=composer , that would be
> Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy.
>
> * Or install Composer 2 manually instead of from the system repositories
> – https://getcomposer.org/download/

Thanks Bartosz .

Its unfortunate 1.39 is a LTS but it was not well tested.

(We can't upgrade to Jammy because our web host does not provide
it.[1] Our only options are at the moment are Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu
18.04, CentOS 8, CentOS 7, Debian 10, Debian 9, OpenSuse Leap 15)

Jeff

[1] https://www.ionos.com/servers/vps
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