[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#781232: Bug#766884: libxml2 broken in sid for months already

[Raphael Hertzog]

Control: severity 766884 important

Hi Aron,

please keep me in copy as I'm not subscribed to
debian-xml-sgml-pkgs at lists.alioth.debian.org... I just discovered your
reply by chance.

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Aron Xu wrote:
> Let's reopen #766884 for tracking, it's not really fixed, but just
> avoided. Unfortunately #781232 is opened. I would like to block this
> version to testing as it's not the proper way of fixing the problem
> (but it is indeed the most straightforward way of avoiding it).

Why don't you want to let this version in testing?

The release team has made it clear that they prefer to have the same
version in unstable and in testing... and the version in unstable is not
worse than the version in testing.

> The proper way of working this bug around would be bisecting and
> patching which is quite time consuming. I haven't yet managed to get
> it done and help is welcomed, but if no one step up I'll do it
> eventually (or cross finger for finding a proper fix, :D).

Someone already did this that in the upstream bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737840

So if you want you can try to revert this commit:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=a16eb968075a82ec33b2c1e77db8909a35b44620

But Daniel Veillard made it clear that this commit
was not at fault, it was only making the problem visible:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737840#c2

So yes, maybe switching to 1.9.2 and reverting this
one would be better until a proper fix is available.

But this bug should not prevent the migration of the package to testing
since the package in sid does not exhibit the problem currently. So
I'm reducing its severity to important in particular since you do not seem
to want to close it until a proper fix is available upstream.

I just added another commit on request of Julien Cristau.  Whatever you
decide, you need to make a new upload so that the "icu" migration can be
completed in unstable.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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