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and subject line Re: python-reportlab-accel: sgmlop.c is incredibly old and
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has caused the Debian Bug report #646520,
regarding python-reportlab-accel: sgmlop.c is incredibly old and broken
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Package: python-reportlab-accel
Version: 2.4-1
Severity: important
The version of sgmlop.c included in python-reportlab is VERY old
(over 11 years old). Significant bugs (which prevent the code
operating correctly) have been fixed in the "latest" version.
By "latest" I mean "from 2004"; you can get it from the original
author at: http://www.effbot.org/downloads/#sgmlop
The list of bugs that updating sgmlop.c would fix follows:
2000-07-05 fl Fixed attribute handling in empty tags (@XML6) (release 1.0)
2001-10-01 fl Release buffer on close
2001-10-01 fl Added built-in support for standard entities (@XML8)
2001-10-01 fl Removed experimental Element data type
2001-10-01 fl Added support for hexadecimal character references
2001-10-02 fl Improved support for doctype parsing
2001-10-02 fl Optional well-formedness checker
2001-12-18 fl Flag missing entity handler only in strict mode (@XML12)
2001-12-29 fl Fixed compilation under gcc -Wstrict
2002-01-13 fl Resolve entities in attributes
2002-03-26 fl PyArg_NoArgs is deprecated; replace with PyArg_ParseTuple
2002-05-26 fl Don't mess up on <empty/> tags (@XML20)
2002-11-13 fl Changed handling of large character entities (@XML15)
2002-11-13 fl Added support for garbage collection (@XML15)
2003-09-07 fl Fixed parsing of short PI's (@XMLTOOLKIT24)
2003-09-07 fl Fixed garbage collection support for Python 2.2 and later
2004-04-04 fl Fixed parsing of non-ascii attribute values (@XMLTOOLKIT38)
In particular, the "Resolve entities in attributes" bug is the one
that we encountered that caused our use of python-reportlab to fail.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers lucid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.4-rscloud (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages python-reportlab-accel depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii python 2.6.5-0ubuntu1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-reportlab 2.4-1 ReportLab library to create PDF do
python-reportlab-accel recommends no packages.
python-reportlab-accel suggests no packages.
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Version: 3.0-1
not part of 3.0 anymore.
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