Re: [gentoo-dev] app-text/htmltidy: Maintainer Request

[Raymond Jennings]

I'm not a gentoo developer yet (rl drama has majorly lagged me on getting
my quizzes done) but if there's a way I can help it I wouldn't mind.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Yury German <blueknight@g.o> wrote:

> Well a few things need to happen:
>
> 1. app-text/tidy-html5 - Need to go Stabl
> 2. dep and rdep need to be migrated to tidy-html5 and tested.
>
> Since Patrice (monsieurp) is the maintainer of tidy-html5, do you want
> to become maintainer of htmltidy temporarily to help kill it and move to
> tidy-html5?
>
>
> On 6/6/16 10:41 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > If tidy-html5 can take care of anything htmltidy can, then we can boot
> > the latter as obsolete anyhow.  Are there any backwards compatibility
> > issues if we just punt it and let tidy-html5 take over?
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Yury German <blueknight@g.o
> > <mailto:blueknight@g.o>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 6/5/16 8:02 PM, Patrice Clement wrote:
> >     > Sunday 05 Jun 2016 19:39:26, Yury German wrote :
> >     >> app-text/htmltidy currently has no maintainers. It has a
> vulnerability
> >     >> [Security Bug] filed against it. And a number of other [package
> depend
> >     >> on it]. Is nyone willing to pick it up?
> >     >>
> >     >> [Secuity Bug]
> >     >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561452
> >     >>
> >     >> [package depend on it]
> >     >>
> https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/dindex/app-text/htmltidy
> >     >>
> https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/app-text/htmltidy
> >
> >     > Don't bother. Have a look at [1], [2] & [3] to find out why.
> >     >
> >     > tl;dr
> >     >
> >     > htmltidy has got to be culled at some point since it's now
> considered obsolete
> >     > after tidy-html5 entered the tree a little while ago. It's roughly
> the same
> >     > codebase yet it's HTML 5 compliant. Yay!
> >     >
> >     > I've been maintaining the latter since its inclusion in the
> Portage tree but
> >     > would definitely need help to remove the former. I didn't swap
> htmltidy for
> >     > tidy-html5 cause they're two different projects. As you can see
> from the links
> >     > above, htmltidy has a gazillion deps.
> >     >
> >     > [1]: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
> >     > [2]: http://www.html-tidy.org/
> >     > [3]: https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5
> >     >
> >
> >     This is all agreed, but unless someone is driving this it will never
> get
> >     removed from tree. The security patch is one thing, but cleaning it
> up
> >     and switching to tidy-html5 is why we need a maintainer so that we
> can
> >     get rid of the dependencies otherwise it will sit there unsecured for
> >     the next 5 years.
> >
> >
> >
>
>