[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#445961: Bug#445961: libxml2-utils: xmllint fails to report line-numbers above 65535

Tue Oct 9 17:37:12 UTC 2007

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:31:04PM +0200, Sebastien Koechlin wrote:
> Package: libxml2-utils
> Version: 2.6.27.dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> xmllint is unable to report line number for lines above 65535. Every line
> after this line is wrongly reported as 65535.

Not surprising, since the line number is coded as an unsigned short...
It may appear quite difficult to fix this without breaking ABI...

Mike