From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Having trouble packaging 'tidy' Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:47:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87iojuc8us.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc2pN-0006Ls-7l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:47:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc2pD-0005ZT-1y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:47:37 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog127.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.107]:41902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xc2pC-0005ZF-Qf for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:47:26 -0400 Received: by mail-qc0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c9so258904qcz.9 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from izanagi (209-6-40-86.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com. [209.6.40.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t61sm1287681qge.30.2014.10.08.18.47.23 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Oct 2014 18:47:24 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Tidy is an application/library for fixing problems with HTML markup that is depended on by a number of other projects. However, tidy hasn't been updated since about 2009 and does not provide release tarballs. There's only a CVS repo, and it seems impossible to download a tarball snapshot of a specific revision. Their homepage is here: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ Debian hosts a tarball for their source package, but we probably don't want to rely on that. I'm not sure how to proceed. Thoughts? -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate