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Using ikiwiki version 2.5gpa1 (the backport to Debian 3.1), I suddenly started getting the following error when rebuilding the wiki:

I've no idea what's happening (hey, I'm a C programmer), but I've hacked prune() to workaround this as follows:

Old versions of perl are known to have bugs with taint checking. I don't really support using ikiwiki with the perl 5.8.4 in debian oldstable, and would recommend upgrading. --[[Joey]]