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There was a bug with this at some point. I can only imagine it is fixed now..
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292885
Was changed away from this in https://github.com/addshore/mediawiki-docker-dev/commit/ 40dc10be5bdd4f716cab5dd8388da78faa29098b