Dear Maintainer,

it is currently impossible to deploy a new ikiwiki instance on Debian
trixie:
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$ ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
What will the wiki be named? wiki
/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup: Only one Term::ReadLine::Gnu instance is allowed. at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm line 17.

usage: ikiwiki [options] source dest
       ikiwiki --setup my.setup [options]

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Note that it works well on bookworm, while the files
/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup and /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm
have not been changed between the two releases.

Ciao,
Thierry

...

Thanks. Confirmed. Ouch!

As a workaround you can do something like

	ikiwiki --dumpsetup my.setup ./src ./dest

and then manually adjust my.setup.

I suspect the breakage to auto.setup occurred with
libterm-readline-gnu-perl moving to 1.47 but that's not confirmed.

The check for multiple instances was added in Term::ReadLine::Gnu 1.46:
https://metacpan.org/release/HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.46 and
https://github.com/hirooih/perl-trg/issues/16#issuecomment-1615775088

A workaround is to force Term::ReadLine to use the Perl implementation
instead of the Gnu one by placing PERL_RL=Perl before the ikiwiki
invocation.  This has the unfortunate effect of not prefilling any of
the suggested answers to the questions.

The permanent fix is to alter IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm to place the
Term::ReadLine creation outside of the ask sub:
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@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@
 use File::Path;
 use Encode;

+my $r=Term::ReadLine->new("ikiwiki");
+
 sub ask ($$) {
 	my ($question, $default)=@_;

-	my $r=Term::ReadLine->new("ikiwiki");
 	$r->ornaments("md,me");
 	$r->readline(encode_utf8($question)." ", $default);
 }
----

Hope this helps.

It certainly does, thank you! I'm guilty of clean forgetting about the
bug. I'll try to reproduce it today, and I'll apply the patch upstream
asap.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ikiwiki, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1113969@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> (supplier of updated ikiwiki package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:24:24 +0000
Source: ikiwiki
Architecture: source
Version: 3.20260201-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Changed-By: Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Closes: 1113969 1126028
Changes:
 ikiwiki (3.20260201-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * New upstream version. Closes: #1126028, #1113969.
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