Bug#552018: Upgrading to grave

[brian m. carlson]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:01:35PM +0100, Torsten Werner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:04 AM, brian m. carlson
> <sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx> wrote:
> > Yes.  Even if someone were to disagree that this bug is grave, at the
> > very least, this is serious, since nobody can reasonably claim that the
> > package in this state is suitable for release.
> 
> We have had 2 stable releases with this bug and upstream didn't know
> about the bug 2 days ago. That is why I think it is reasonable to
> downgrade the severity to important.

Honestly, I'm not really that invested in the severity of the bug, as
long as we get a fixed version soon.  I'd really like to be able to
build my website with ant, and this bug is a blocker for that.

Do be aware of a couple of things, though.  First, as long as Java
networking is broken, anytime the resolver returns a null result
wrongly, it breaks the lookup.  This is also a problem when network
access is slow, unreliable, or prohibited by policy (configurations
which we support).  Also, anytime a W3C DTD or schema wrongly gets a
null result, it will result in a validation failure, since W3C blocks
repeated requests from Java (because they don't need an even bigger
bandwidth bill).

Since XHTML is almost certainly the most common XML application, and
DocBook is also very common, the resolver breaks a very significant
portion of the XML applications that are commonly used in Debian.

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