[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#1105924: Bug#1105924: request-tracker5: please migrate away from libhtml-gumbo-perl

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 10:24:54AM +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 15:00 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Hi, I posted a tentative patch for libhtml-gumbo-perl, but I think it
> > should really go away at some point.  It's unmaintained upstream and
> > hasn't adapted to newer development in the gumbo-parser library properly.
> > 
> > The only reverse dependency is request-tracker5, so that would need to
> > be handled first. Filing a bug about this for starters.
> 
> The upstream is actually Best Practical, but the repo was in a staff members
> personal space on GitHub, so they hadn't seen you bug report + patch.

That repo (https://github.com/ruz/HTML-Gumbo) is still listed in
META.yml as of 0.19, even though 0.19 itself is not there. Oh well.

> I submitted a ticket in their company tracker [0]. They are now tracking that
> repo, and have published 0.19, which has pulled in a numerous patches from
> around the place (including another of yours!).
> 
> I'll update the package in unstable later today.

Thanks for taking care of this!

> > Greetings from the (somewhat rainy) Debian MountainCamp in Innsbruck!
> 
> /me is jealous

Well that was a year ago already :)

Greetings from rainy Helsinki this time,
-- 
Niko