Same problem here as OP. > Finally... is Renameuser the only affected extension?
Here is my attempt to find matching filenames between the two packages: $ /bin/grep -f <(for x in `dpkg -L mediawiki-extensions-base | /bin/grep php` ; do echo "/"`basename $x` ; done) <(dpkg -L mediawiki) /usr/share/mediawiki/includes/interwiki/Interwiki.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.i18n.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions_body.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/Expr.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/Convert.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.i18n.magic.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/testExpr.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/renameUserCleanup.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser_body.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/SpecialRenameuser.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.alias.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/Renameuser.i18n.php /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/Renameuser/RenameUserJob.php 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 mediawiki: /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions/ParserFunctions/Convert.php mediawiki-extensions-base: /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/base/ParserFunctions/Convert.php In summary: Renameuser, ParserFunctions, and Interwiki(?) are the three extensions where I see potential redundancy issues. It would be good to have a clean separation of these extensions into just one package. In addition to the md5sums issue, when debugging it can be confusing to figure out which one of two instances of these redundant files is actually "live", especially with all the sym-linking that goes on in the mediawiki packages. -Zach
