Package: debhelper Version: 9.20120909 Followup-For: Bug #562874
Hello, I'm the current maintainer of html2text (which was under RFA for years and going to become orphaned very soon). Please consider dropping (or downgrading) the dependency on html2text in the long run. Its upstream is gone long ago. Though in years 2008-2009 there was a Debian-speficic attempt to add/improve Unicode and recoding support and fix some old bugs, there are still problems. If only 0.3% of our packages actually need this converting, I would suggest that those packages start build-depend on html2text (or something else as there are some alternatives in the archive which may work better in some situations) and handle converting themselves as needed. For certain cases, even if stock html2text is used, packages definitely would want to pass (some of) -utf8 / -nometa / -width options to produce correct and/or more readable result. Last but not the least, I just received a bug report which says that bootstrapping debhelper is a bit harder than it could be since people have to port also html2text's build dependencies. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
