[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#583804: Bug#583804: Bug in gnustep-base1.19.3 (source): whitespace erroneously stripped from XML property lists

[Yavor Doganov]

severity 583804 important
found 583804 1.19.3-3
affects 583804 oolite
tags 583804 patch fixed-upstream
forwarded 583804 https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29955
thanks

Michael Werle wrote:
> When loading an XML Property List (plist) which contains leading or
> trailing whitespace in a string property, or whitespace surrounding
> an XML entity, this whitespace is incorrectly stripped.

Yes, thanks for catching that and reporting it upstream.

> This bug specifically affects the game Oolite on systems with these
> faulty versions of libgnustep-base.

Does it affect only the testsuite?  I seem to be able to play the game
without any problems.

> This bug has been fixed by GNUstep in their trunk revision #30454 and
> they will backport the fix to the 1.20 version of gnustep-base.  They
> have indicated they will not backport the fix to 1.19.x

That's right, 1.19.x became obsolete once 1.20.0 was released.  The
next stable Debian release, Squeeze, will ship with 1.20.x, probably
1.20.1.  If it happens to be 1.20.0, I'll make sure to pick up the
patch.

> Please find attached a backported patch for gnustep-base-1.19.3.

Many thanks for your efforts, but no further uploads of 1.19.3 are
planned for Debian.  We hope to be able to upload 1.20.x to sid very
soon.