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

[Patrice Clement]

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
>
> ______________________________
> Yury German
> GLSA Coordinator | Gentoo Security Team
> Administrator    | Planet Gentoo
> Email: blueknight@g.o
>
> GPG Fingerprint: 8858 89D6 C0C4 75C4 D0DD  FA00 EEAF ED89 024C 043
>

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

-- 
Patrice Clement
Gentoo Linux developer
http://www.gentoo.org