Please test your debian package for compatibility with tidy-html5/5.8.0

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 15:53:36 -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote:

> You are receiving this email because you are listed as Debian package
> maintainer/uploader for one of the packages that depends on tidy-html5, as
> listed on https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-tidy-html5.html .
> 
> I intend to upload tidy-html5/5.8.0 (upstream stable release) onto Debian
> unstable soon with a transition. The previous attempt in upgrading tidy-html5
> triggered some chaos (for example, [1]) and resulted in adding an epoch to
> src:tidy-html5[2], so I expect that this time all reverse-dependencies could
> test out the new tidy-html5 first and make necessary compatibility changes,
> especially for PHP and perl packages.

Thank you for this notice.

While I think it's possible to build the 2 affected perl packages
against the libtidy-dev version in experimental, I'd still like to
mention that typically a library transition in Debian works the way that
the maintainer(s) of the library which possibly breaks reverse
dependencies rebuilds those packages against the new version and
files bugs (preferably with patches) against the affected packages
and only uploades the new package to unstable when most of the issues
are fixed.


Cheers,
gregor

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