[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#862450: libxml2: diff for NMU version 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 10:45:33AM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 09:27:47AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > I've prepared an NMU for libxml2 (versioned as 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1) and
> > uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I
> > should delay it longer.
> 
> Usually I consider a bad idea incorporating patches like this that
> haven't be applied upstream.  I hope SUSE did the right thing…

Besides, it doesn't apply to 2.9.7, and there is another line of code
that may or may not need a similar treatment (check out the experimental
branch on git).  Could you please see about it?  Otherwise we risk
ending up with an higher version either dropping the patch or
mis-applying it...

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