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Old 08-17-2016, 10:25 AM   #5
KevinH
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Originally Posted by Arran View Post
Do you think this will become a problem?
The double-entity bug in libxml2? Yes, it already is an issue. The Linux distributions are using the latest versions of this library which has a serious bug when used with Qt (the gui library that Sigil uses). There has been a bug report with patch since early January from Apple but it has been ignored by the libxml2 developers. I have updated the bug to include Sigil and tried to send direct e-mail to the lead developer but it was either never received or ignored.

Apple uses its own version of this library and they have fixed the bug. Windows typically uses an older version that does not have the bug. Only Linux distributions are being hit with the bug as they have updated to the most current version (with the bug) since this is a key library.

I just wanted to draw this to the attention of anyone creating a Sigil ppa for linux.

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