[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#993638: Bug#993638: libxml2: XHTML 1.0 validation is broken

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-09-20 15:57:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> So, if I understand correctly, this was a Debian-specific bug. I
> suspect that the incorrect XHTML 1.1 definitions were retrieved
> from the old w3c-dtd-xhtml source and shared for both XHTML 1.0
> and XHTML 1.1 DTDs. This would explain how the bug has been
> introduced in Debian from 2012 to 2016 (and still now until the
> w3c-dtd-xhtml package is removed from users' machines).

I forgot to add that this means that probably almost all users
will not be affected by the bug after w3c-dtd-xhtml is removed
(i.e. I don't expect buggy files copied locally). So, definitively
no need to announce anything. The Conflicts should be sufficient.

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