[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#781232: xmlSafeURI: Fails to unparse URI with empty host part

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Package: libxml2
> Version: 2.9.1+dfsg1-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This currently fails on Jessie (from the libvirt-clients package):
> 
>     $ virsh -c test:///default uri
>     test:/default uri
> 
> while on Wheezy/Sid it correctly roundtrips the URI:
> 
>     $ virsh -c test:///default uri
>     test:///default uri
> 
> The reason is that libvirt's virURIFormat invokes xmlSaveURI as shown
> here:
> 
>     http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=blob;f=src/util/viruri.c;h=6166c372b048063eebf11a4ba21712784be348d0;hb=HEAD#l252
> 
> caused by
> 
> 0034-xmlSaveUri-incorrectly-recomposes-URIs-with-rootless.patch.
> 
> It'd be nice to have this fixed for Jessie since this also breaks
> libvirt's testsuite.

I should add that it also works in sid. I'm inclined to bump the
severity since currently libvirt is unbuildable on jessie due to that.
Cheers,
 -- Guido