For reference to other users waiting for an update, I resolved myself to directly edit /usr/share/php/smarty3/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templateparser.php on the three locations where there was a stray 0 (one near the beginning, one at line 2838 and the last one at the very end of the file).
Not great to edit files managed by the package manager, but I really needed an immediate temporary solution and this did it.
For reference to other users waiting for an update, I resolved myself to directly edit /usr/share/ php/smarty3/ sysplugins/ smarty_ internal_ templateparser. php on the three locations where there was a stray 0 (one near the beginning, one at line 2838 and the last one at the very end of the file).
Not great to edit files managed by the package manager, but I really needed an immediate temporary solution and this did it.