only pass named parameters to the canrename hook

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@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Joey, please see RecentChanges and note that this is my second bug report,
 because the first was unsuccessfully (bad characters in post title?).
 Could you please tidy it up?
 
 because the first was unsuccessfully (bad characters in post title?).
 Could you please tidy it up?
 

+> I've fixed that and the bug that caused the dup.
+
+>> Thanks a lot! :)
+

 I've just upgraded my ikiwiki from version 2.11 to the latest version 2.15.
 I use my own rebuilt ikiwiki package for Ubuntu Gutsy box. Now I can't rebuild
 all my ikiwiki pages, because of the following bug:
 I've just upgraded my ikiwiki from version 2.11 to the latest version 2.15.
 I use my own rebuilt ikiwiki package for Ubuntu Gutsy box. Now I can't rebuild
 all my ikiwiki pages, because of the following bug:


@@ -25,3 +29,56 @@ I can't see any related entries. Any ideas?
 > **Update**: I've came back to ikiwiki 2.11 and... the bug still exists!
 > Probably the reason is that I've removed all content of `/var/www/blog/`
 > before mass rebuilding. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
 > **Update**: I've came back to ikiwiki 2.11 and... the bug still exists!
 > Probably the reason is that I've removed all content of `/var/www/blog/`
 > before mass rebuilding. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]

+
+> I can't reproduce this bug with a setup file that tells ikiwiki to
+> write to /var/www/blog, which doesn't exist. I get a "Permission denied"
+> since I can't write to /var/www. If I make the permissions allow me to
+> write to /var/www, it happily creates the blog subdirectory. If the blog
+> subdirectory is already there and I can write to it, that of course also
+> works.
+> 
+> I'll need enough information to reproduce the problem before I can fix
+> it. Probably a copy of your setup file, wiki source, and information
+> about how your /var/www is set up. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Thanks for your efforts, Joey! I sent my `ikiwiki.setup` file to you.
+>> What source do you need? Entire my ikiwiki or only some pages?
+>>
+>> There are settings of `/var/www/` directory on my Ubuntu Gutsy box:
+>>
+>>        ptecza@anahaim:~$ ls -al /var/www/
+>>        total 16
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  4 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:25 .
+>>        drwxr-xr-x 14 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:13 ..
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2007-11-06 16:13 apache2-default
+>>        drwxr-xr-x  5 ptecza ptecza 4096 2007-12-17 16:54 blog
+>>
+>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+>> I need a set of files that you know I can use to reproduce the bug.
+>> --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> OK, I've just sent you the URL where you can find all files you need :)
+>>>
+>>> Probably I know how to reproduce the bug. You have to erase all files from
+>>> `/var/www/blog` before mass rebuilding. This is my `mass-rebuild.sh` script:
+>>>
+>>>        #!/bin/bash
+>>>        
+>>>        rm -rf /var/www/blog/*
+>>>        ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup --getctime --verbose
+>>>
+>>> I noticed that the bug was "resolved" when I added to my blog new entry
+>>> and commited the changes. Before I created all directories and touched
+>>> empty `*.html` files in `/var/www/blog` directory. Probably it's not
+>>> necessary, because without a new blog revision the bug still existed
+>>> and `ikiwiki` still failed.
+>>>
+>>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+>> I'd forgotten about [this perl bug](http://bugs.debian.org/411786).
+>> All I can do is work around it by disabling the taint checking. :-(
+>> (Which I've [[done]].) --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> Ubuntu Gutsy also has Perl 5.8.8-7, so probably it has the bug too.
+>>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]