Debian packaging

[vielmetti]

When I do an apt-get install tidy on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (Debian), I get this version

Setting up tidy (20091223cvs-1.2+deb7u1) ...

The documentation should include whatever incantations are necessary to pick up the current released version of tidy through a Debian install from some repo.

[geoffmcl]

@vielmetti, yes it is very sad apt-get install tidy only seems to gets you a 2009 cvs version of Tidy! This is VERY OLD! 5 plus years...

But we, the HTACG Tidy community, can only urge package managers to pick up and offer later releases in their distribution...

We have tagged some dozen Releases - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/releases

We maintain our own binary distribution page - http://www.htacg.org/binaries/ - a page shown in the README.md

You should send a strong note to Raspberry Pi urging, asking, demanding, pleading, ... that they update their tidy package distribution to a later version...

And help us understand what more we, as HTACG, need to do to get the latest tidy into distribution...

Will leave this open in case others want to comment, but at this point I know of nothing else for Tidy! to do ;=((

Quite a number of issues have touched this package manager topic - #99, #120, #159, #174, #194, #223, #224, #231, and maybe others... just searching package and manager...

[vielmetti]

Noted in this bug on Ubuntu for tidy:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tidy/+bug/1029209?comments=all

[vielmetti]

And also noted in the tidy-html5 page for Debian, which is I think where we need to go next:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770129

[vielmetti]

Issue has been raised with the Debian community, and it's not a bug in tidy, so this can close.