Bug#1006333: biboumi: fail to start after libexpat1 update

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Control: reassign -1 src:expat
Control: found -1 2.2.6-2+deb10u3
Control: affects -1 biboumi

Quoting Slavko (2022-02-23 18:57:49)
> Package: biboumi
> Severity: serious
> Version: 8.3-1+b1
> 
> After security upgrade of libexpat library, the biboumi refused to
> start with error:
> 
>     Xml_Parsebuffer encountered an error: out of memory
> 
> I tried to build testing's version (in pbuilder chroot) for
> oldstable, it builds fain, but test "Test basic XML parsing" fails with:
> 
>     SIGSEGV - Segmentation violation signal
> 
> It builds success on current testing (again pbuilder), thus it seems,
> that some change in libexpat 2.2.6-2+deb10u3 is incompatible, as it was
> working with previous version (2.2.6-2+deb10u2).
> 
> I am not able to decide, if it is libexpat or biboumi problem.

Thanks for the bugreport, Slavko.

Updates to stable Debian are supposed to not change API or API, so the 
problem is more likely to lie in expat than biboumi.

Reassigning accordingly.


 - Jonas

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