reproducible reliability issues in 2.4.13

[Thomas Klausner]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:14:12AM -0500, Mike Alexander wrote:
> That compressed length is 0x31006 according to my calculations.
> This will trigger the bug in libxml2 that I recently changed GnuCash
> to circumvent.  This fix came just after the last release of the
> experimental branch so it's not yet generally available.  Instead,
> if you expand the file with gzip, the expanded version should open
> fine. If you then make any change, the new version will probably be
> enough different in size to avoid the problem.

Thanks, it seems this really is the problem. I successfully opened the
broken file after gunzipping it.

Are there versions of libxml2 (I'm using 2.9.1) or zlib (1.2.3) that
don't have this bug?

Or is a version of your patch available for testing on the 2.4 branch?

Thanks,
 Thomas