Bug#518433: XALANJ-2430 - Xalan 2.7.1 won't compile an xslt when a recursive template is used in a global variable.

2009-12-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
severity 518433 important
thanks

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:41:35PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
 Package: libxalan2-java
 Version: 2.7.1-2
 Severity: grave
 Tags: upstream

I don't think sure severity grave or even RC is appropriate here. If
it were only for xalan itself, the bug is surely a bug, but it is
severity normal as the case of recursive template invocation within
variables is not that common and can be worked around in most cases.

So I believe you set grave as it breaks other programs, but I failed
to find evidence of that. For instance, by checking the bug log of
openoffice.org-writer I can't find (at the time of writing) any bug
report about the inability to save into XHTML that are related to this
bug. Some goes for mediawiki output.

Hence, I'm lowering the severity of this bug to important. If you want
to raise it again please provide evidence of misbehavior's introduced in
other Debian packages introduced by this. Also, it would be nice to mark
those packages as affected by this bug and mark the corresponding bugs
as blocked by this one.

Many thanks in advance,
Cheers.

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Bug#518433: XALANJ-2430 - Xalan 2.7.1 won't compile an xslt when a recursive template is used in a global variable.

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Cheney
Package: libxalan2-java
Version: 2.7.1-2
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-2430

This bug affects the ability for OpenOffice.org to at minimum load/save
to mediawiki, xhtml, office 2003 xml formats, all of which I have seen
bug reports about. And it probably breaks many other programs that use
xalan as well.

It appears the only easy solution at present is to downgrade
libxalan2-java to 2.7.0, otherwise every xsl that is affected has to be
modified to work.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney




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