[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#836698: libxml2: Entity is parsed and expanded twice under certain conditions

Mon Sep 5 08:49:16 UTC 2016

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> I wonder what you would think about including the proposed patch there
> in the debian packaging, several indipendent parties tested it, and

Unfortunately (cf. #770836), the Debian maintainers don’t
wish to add local patches not in upstream, due to the
complexity of this code and the chance to add even more
bugs. Not that upstream is willing to include fixes either…

bye,
//mirabilos
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