Package: pidgin
Version: 2.5.5-1
Severity: normal
I was just debugging an XML stream problem in my own codebase, found the
offending character and was sending a message with it to a friend so they
could see what was crashing our software. This caused pidgin itself to crash
with "XML Not Well Formed".
The string I was pasting is:
the worlds greatest ancient mysteries
As you can see, there is a control-Z character where there should be an
apostrophe -- probably some bad encoding soemwhere up the line -- but it
results in pidgin dropping my XMPP connection.
Pidgin (and/or the upstream XML emitter) should handle this better. My software
should too. I'm working on fixing my software now. :-)
Thanks,
Tyler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pidgin depends on:
ii gconf2 2.24.0-7 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.22-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-4+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.13-2 a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpurple0 2.5.5-1 multi-protocol instant messaging l
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 2:1.2-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.1 5.10.0-19 minimal Perl system
ii pidgin-data 2.5.5-1 multi-protocol instant messaging c
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages pidgin recommends:
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.22-4 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.14-2 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
Versions of packages pidgin suggests:
ii evolution-data-server 2.24.5-2 evolution database backend server
ii gnome-panel 2.20.3-5+b1 launcher and docking facility for
ii libsqlite3-0 3.5.9-6 SQLite 3 shared library
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