[pkg-horde] Bug#828097: Possible to keep old tidy?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:21:00PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi,
> (not sure why this bug is still open)
> 
> 
> >The upgrade of tidy to the newer version breaks what MediaWiki expects
> >(see test failures:
> ><https://people.wikimedia.org/~legoktm/tidy-failures.log>), and updating
> >MediaWiki to be compatible with the newer tidy isn't an option either:
> ><https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-August/082845.html>.
> 
> >>So is it possible to keep the older version of tidy around? Preferably
> >also via the php-tidy library, though I'm not sure exactly how that
> >integration would work.
> 
> 
> I really don't think this is possible.
> There can be only one tidy implementation, and we have maintainer choose
> the actively maintained one (also Fedora did, and I'm sure other distro too).
> 
> Fix the code with the new library is your best solution.
> Or make somebody upload the old tidy with a different library name, and patch
> the code to use that one.
> (I would oppose such bad way to deal with a library update btw)

There is no technical reason why the two tidy versions couldn't coexist 
long-term in the archive if someone would ITP the old version back into 
unstable - the libraries have different so-names so that was already 
handled, and by using alternatives and/or calling the old binary tiny-old.

This would not be desirable, but shouldn't cause any problems.

The tidy PHP extension is a different story.

php-horde-text-filter is the only rdep of php{,5,7.0}-tidy that
is not completely broken (galette is pretty RC-buggy), so making
the tidy PHP extension in stretch use the old tidy would also
likely be doable.[1]

But the solution with minimum impact for everyone else would be to ITP 
the old tidy version back into unstable with the binary renamed to 
tidy-old, and patching MediaWiki to not use the PHP extension.

Looking at [2], it seems that for buster the problem will be fixed by 
MediaWiki no longer using tidy?

> G.

cu
Adrian

BTW: Why doesn't the mediawiki package have any kind of dependency
     on tidy or php-tidy?

[1] Which tidy version does php-horde-text-filter expect?
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsing/Replacing_Tidy

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