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and subject line Bug#946593: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #534721,
regarding libhpricot-ruby1.8: Hpricot's XML parser fails to parse simple, valid 
XML
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Package: libhpricot-ruby1.8
Version: 0.8-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


This bug also applies to libhpricot-ruby1.9.

Problems:
- Valid XML is rendered invalid.
- XML is no longer parseable.
- Invalid XML is not rejected by default (required by the standard). (minor)

Workaround:
  $ aptitude install libhpricot-ruby1.8=0.6-2

Discussion:

Closing tags are sometimes not parsed correctly; causing the parser to 
"helpfully" add closing tags. Whether this happens or not seems to be 
pseudorandom:
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<aaaa></aaaa>')"
  <aaaa></aaaa>
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<zzzz></zzzz>')"
  <zzzz></zzzz></zzzz>

The effect is similar to the (incorrect) behaviour when it detects malformed 
XML:
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<a></b>')"
  <a></b></a>
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<a>b')"
  <a>b</a>

The unparsed tag appears to be treated like <zzzz/>:
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print 
Hpricot.XML('<zzzz></zzzz>').search('/zzzz')"
  <zzzz></zzzz></zzzz>
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print 
Hpricot.XML('<zzzz></zzzz>').search('/zzzz/zzzz')"
  </zzzz>

This causes the nesting to break, rendering most XML completely unparseable:
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print 
Hpricot.XML('<a><zzzz></zzzz><b></b></a>')"
  <a><zzzz></zzzz><b></b></zzzz></a>
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print 
Hpricot.XML('<a><zzzz></zzzz><b></b></a>').search('/a/b')"
(no output)
  $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print 
Hpricot.XML('<a><zzzz></zzzz><b></b></a>').search('/a/zzzz/b')"
  <b></b>

This might be related to how Hpricot treats uncrecognized closing tags.
  0.6-2 closes the correct tag, ignoring the contents of the closing tag (this 
is also invalid behaviour for an XML parse):
    $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<a></b>')"
    <a></a>
  0.8-2 is broken as above:
    $ ruby -e "require 'hpricot'; print Hpricot.XML('<a></b>')"
    <a></b></a>

I suspect the problem is in hpricot_scan.so, but hpricot_scan.c is full of 
auto-generated code.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libhpricot-ruby1.8 depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.9-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libruby1.8                   1.8.7.174-1 Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.

libhpricot-ruby1.8 recommends no packages.

libhpricot-ruby1.8 suggests no packages.

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Version: 0.8.6-6+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package ruby-hpricot has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/946593

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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