Package: tidy
Version: 1:5.2.0-1.1
Severity: normal

Hello and thanks for maintaining tidy-html5 in Debian!

Unfortunately, after the upgrade:

  [UPGRADE] tidy:amd64 20091223cvs-1.5 -> 1:5.2.0-1.1

I noticed that tidy was completely misbehaving. None of my usual settings
was complied with.

My settings were in ~/.tidyrc and /usr/share/doc/tidy/README.Debian
still claims that this is the configuration file!
On the other hand, the online help tells a different story:

  $ tidy --help
  [...]
  On some platforms Tidy will also attempt to use a configuration specified 
  in /etc/tidy.conf or ~/.tidy.conf.
  [...]

This is a first issue, please fix the apparently outdated information
in the README.Debian file.

However, after:

  $ mv ~/.tidyrc ~/.tidy.conf

tidy still seems to ignore the content of ~/.tidy.conf !
Only after setting the enviroment variable:

  $ export HTML_TIDY=~/.tidy.conf

I was able to finally see tidy behaving as it was supposed to.

I think this is a bug: the HTML_TIDY environment variable should
be used to change the configuration file name from its default
value to another custom path, but there should be a default
configuration file name (and the online help claims that this
is ~/.tidy.conf, which is however apparently ignored).

Please investigate and fix this bug and/or forward my bug report
upstream.

Thanks for your time.
Bye!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages tidy depends on:
ii  libc6     2.22-13
ii  libtidy5  1:5.2.0-1.1

tidy recommends no packages.

tidy suggests no packages.

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