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

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:52:20 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:

> 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".

Right, I was a bit unsure about that. But it looks like they are
interested in your patches, so this might end well.
 
> 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>.

Thank you very much!

I've merged your tree and uploaded the package.
 

Cheers,
gregor

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