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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-09-07 10:25:02 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Aron,
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 04:07:38PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > Agreed on fixing unstable first if possible, but it's only ideal case
> > that we really want to wait it migrate to testing. Stable is for
> > production, not another testing for testing that need to wait for
> > testing.
> 
> We need to fix this bug in unstable first if we want to have this fixed
> in stable via a point release, otherwise the release managers will very
> likely reject it.

Well, stable is not affected by this bug, but by other security
problems. The patches are available here, so that I don't see any
problem.

I've asked upstream if they could release a new version based on
2.9.1 with security fixes and a non-regression test for this bug:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737840#c8

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