> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "How can MW 1.27.1 be stable with a broken hook?"
> Local Time: June 27, 2017 10:41 PM
> UTC Time: June 27, 2017 8:41 PM
> From: [email protected]
> To: Stephan Gambke <[email protected]>, Wikimedia developers 
> <[email protected]>
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:02 PM Stephan Gambke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118683
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/244044 introduced a change that causes 
>> warnings on extensions that implemented the TitleMoveComplete hook signature 
>> according to documentation at 
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/TitleMoveComplete.
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/249189/ tried to fix it but did not.
>> Since then several MW versions have been released without a fix. All that 
>> happened was that the hook description on mw.org got a warning banner.
>> Any comments? Any suggestions as to a way forward?
>> As 244044 is clearly breaking stuff, what about completely reverting it?
>
> Sometimes hook signatures change. A new LTS is a perfectly ok release to put 
> them
> in--LTS just means we won't be introducing breaking changes between releases 
> of
> that series and we're committed to back porting security fixes for some time.
> This was released with 1.27.0 from the beginning -- it was not later 
> backported as an
> incompatible 1.27.1+ fix.
> Extensions that are affected should be updated for 1.27.0+ support -- that's 
> the fix...nothing
> from core.
> -Chad

So deprecation policies do not apply in this case? Why not?
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