Fixing BeautifulSoup/Venus errors in Debian

I use Venus to aggregate a number of blogs I read. It works well, but I kept getting lots of complaints about errors in different feeds; it led to some blogs being kept off the page entirely.

Turns out this is a known problem with older versions of BeautifulSoup, the parser used by Venus. Today I was finally motivated to fix it, and I think it's a sign of the sad, sad decline that happens to you after you're 40 that, rather than try something from Debian's experimental branch, or running dpkg-rebuild --no-beautiful-soup errors (sadly undocumented)...I simply followed the suggestions here and copied newer versions of the files into place.

The good: now I can read Matt's blog again. The bad: Matt will be so disappointed in me that he may not even let me buy him beer at LISA this year.

(Alternately -- and this is something that only occurred to me more than a year later -- you can look in Debian Backports. But then, Wheezy's coming out in about six hours or so as I write this...)