Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > There is a request to remove an orphaned package ikiwiki build depends > on. Would you care to comment on that in #596755?
I'm not sure what kind of comment you're looking for. Removing it would needlessly cause me work on an ongoing basis (as I'd not be able to use it in my regression test suite). To address Moritz's points: - Orphaned since 2006 Can't help you there, I don't maintain non-native packages. - Minimal popcon 150 is not particularly minimal, when you consider that some unknown, but presumably large percentage of users do not report to popcon. My rule of thumb is that the percentage is probably 90%, so removing it would likely inconvenience over a thousand Debian users. Anyway, "not many people validate html" is not a good reason to not have a html validator in Debian. - Only supports HTML4 And XHTML 1.0. Both are, AFAIK, still the dominant standards on the web today, and will probably remain such for 5 to 10 years. While I've love to have a good html5 validator in Debian, it would be foolish for ikiwiki to emit pure html5 by default. Anyway, one nice thing about html4 being such an old standard is that the validator is pretty-near bug-free. The only significant upstream change that has been missed due to the lack of maintenance is support for XHTML Mobile Profile and XHTML+RDFa. http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/changelog.html.en -- see shy jo
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