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

[Michael Werle]

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On Sun, 30 May 2010, Yavor Doganov wrote:

>> 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.
>
As far as we can tell, the core game is not affected although we have not 
completed a complete audit.

The biggest concern revolves around the fact that Oolite can be expanded 
using 'OXPs' - Oolite eXpansion Packs - which are developed by the Oolite 
community.  They are largely entirely driven by Property Lists. Several of 
these are now known to be affected by this bug and, as there is no 
centralised hosting or publishing of OXPs, it is very difficult to attempt 
to vet them all.  From a user perspective, they cannot tell why their 
save-game has stopped loading, or why certain OXPs are no longer working.

We will certainly raise awareness of this amongst OXP authors and attempt 
to work-around this issue where possible.

> 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.
>
Great, thanks for this.

>> 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.
>
This is understandable.

One of our concerns, which is of course not your issue, is that Ubuntu 
Lucid has shipped with 1.19.3 and is an LTS.  They would have liked to see 
a Debian fix to 1.19.3 rather than maintaining their own diffs.

Many thanks for taking your time to investigate this bug report.

Cheers,
  - Micha.
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