diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/testpagespec.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/testpagespec.pm
index a0bb2ff31..77fab497e 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/testpagespec.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/testpagespec.pm
@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
 	if ($ret) {
 		return "match: $ret";
 	}
-	elsif (! defined $ret) {
-		return "match failed: $@";
-	}
 	else {
 		return "no match: $ret";
 	}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 7da9b9c66..deb7fd04e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ikiwiki (2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Improve handling of edits of locked pages by users who are not yet signed
     in.
   * Make testpagespec more robust, including checking for missing/bad
-    parameters, and detecting if a pagespec failed to compile.
+    parameters.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 17:21:13 -0400