Bug#562874: debhelper: depends on html2text

2013-05-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
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 lon

Bug#545695: Bug#562874: debhelper: depends on html2text

2009-12-30 Thread Michal Suchanek
2009/12/29 Joey Hess : > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> The html2text tool cannot handle multibyte charactes such as UTF-8. >> Since UTF-8 is the default encoding on Debian this tool is pretty much >> useless. If html converter is really required for debhelper a working >> one should be chosen. > > I lo

Bug#545695: Bug#562874: debhelper: depends on html2text

2009-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Michal Suchanek wrote: > The html2text tool cannot handle multibyte charactes such as UTF-8. > Since UTF-8 is the default encoding on Debian this tool is pretty much > useless. If html converter is really required for debhelper a working > one should be chosen. I looked at vilistextum but it doesn

Bug#562874: debhelper: depends on html2text

2009-12-28 Thread Michal Suchanek
Package: debhelper Version: 7.0.15 Severity: minor The html2text tool cannot handle multibyte charactes such as UTF-8. Since UTF-8 is the default encoding on Debian this tool is pretty much useless. If html converter is really required for debhelper a working one should be chosen. -- System Inf