On Fri, 04 Sep 2015, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I did that because I believe that this was the correct course of action
> given the lack of proper fix upsream, not because it was an easy solution.

For the record, upstream pushed a "proper" fix now:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=ef709ce2f7b792d5fb69ed142796d743fb1eb388

So you can package a snapshot of the upstream git + the latest security
patches if you prefer.

Cheers,
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