Bug#829409: libhtml-tidy-perl: FTBFS: Failed 7/21 test programs. 8/69 subtests failed.

[Simon McVittie]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2016 at 07:54:05 +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> libhtml-tidy-perl fails to build from source in unstable/amd64

I don't think it was necessarily a good idea to forward this upstream:
the build failure is because Debian forked this Perl module to stop using
its author's fork (tidyp) of the underlying C library (tidy), and now we've
also replaced the C library with a different fork (tidy-html5), which is
what's making the tests fail.

The author of HTML::Tidy seems quite likely to respond "if you had
packaged my fork of tidy like the documentation told you to, you wouldn't
have this problem".

However, tidy-html5 seems likely to be better than either tidy or tidyp,
so hopefully the HTML::Tidy author will be somewhat receptive to the idea
of supporting tidy-html5.

Possible patches for the Debian packaging attached, also available from
<git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/users/smcv/libhtml-tidy-perl.git -b master>.

    S
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