Hi Steve, > A close inspection shows that dmalloc is not actually a requirement of > libtidy-dev; the dmalloc header is included only if one explicitly #defines > DMALLOC in the calling code. libtidy is certainly not linking to / using > dmalloc's implementation at build time.
Thanks for the report. This package is in collab-maint and the dependency was not added by me: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/tidy-html5.git/commit/?id=e0d22c87c157c74e2f9beae828e3b8c592b267cf I have cc'd the author and committer for further discussion, as I'm assuming there was a good reason for this change. However the commit is not linked to a bug ticket so I have no further details, sorry. Cheers! Daniel