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. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
