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Details about package html2text

Name:	html2text (PTS)
Uploader:	Bruno Naibert de Campos <bruno.naibert@gmail.com> (Debian QA page)
Description:	html2text - HTML to text rendering aimed for E-mail

Package uploads

Upload #1

Information

Version:	2.4.0-1
Uploaded:	2025-10-07 00:27
Source package:	html2text_2.4.0-1.dsc
Distribution:	unstable
Section:	web
Priority:	optional
Homepage:	https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text
Vcs-Browser:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/html2text
Vcs-Git:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/html2text.git
Closes bugs:	#931254 #980544 #1019211

Changelog

 html2text (2.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * New upstream version 2.4.0. (Closes: #931254, #1019211, LP: #1564317)
   * debian/control:
     - Added bison | byacc to Build-Depends field.
     - Mark html2text multi-arch foreign. Thanks to Helmut Grohne
       <helmut@subdivi.de> (Closes: #980544)
     - Renewed short and long descriptions.
   * debian/copyright:
     - Updated upstream copyright years.
     - Updated with added and removed files.
   * debian/patches/010_string-before-concat.patch: dropped. The upstream
     already fixed the source code.
   * debian/tests/pkgreport.html.supposed: updated file to be compliant with
     the new upstream version.

QA information

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Package uses debhelper-compat

Debhelper compatibility level 13

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Package is the latest upstream version

Local:	2.4.0
Upstream:	2.4.0
Url:	https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text/-/archive/v2.4.0/html2text-v2.4.0.tar.bz2

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Package is not native

Format: 3.0 (quilt)
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"Maintainer" email is the same as the uploader
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Package has lintian errors
html2text source
- E source-is-missing
  - [tests/utf-8=style-visibility-hidden.html]
- X very-long-line-length-in-source-file
  - 12285 > 512 [tests/utf-8=bold-utf-8-chars-and-zwnj.html:212]
  - 1937 > 512 [tests/utf-8=table-with-border.html:1]
  - 2462 > 512 [tests/utf-8=linked-links-and-email-addresses.html:1]
  - 3719 > 512 [tests/utf-8=tag-with-colon-attribute.html:157]
  - 565 > 512 [tests/iso-8859-1=dot-in-tag-name.html:14]
  - 752 > 512 [tests/utf-8=style-visibility-hidden.html:26]
  - 799 > 512 [debian/tests/cp1251.html:99]
- O debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature
  - [debian/watch]
- O source-is-missing
  - [debian/tests/cp1251.html]
  - [tests/iso-8859-1=dot-in-tag-name.html]
  - [tests/utf-8=bold-utf-8-chars-and-zwnj.html]
  - [tests/utf-8=linked-links-and-email-addresses.html]
  - [tests/utf-8=table-with-border.html]
  - [tests/utf-8=tag-with-colon-attribute.html]
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Package closes bugs
- html2text:
  - #931254 (Normal): html2text crashes with exit status 139 when table column spacing is not zero and a COLSPAN attribute exceeds the document width
  - #980544 (Normal): mark html2text Multi-Arch: foreign
  - #1019211 (Normal): [html2text] Eats 6+GB RAM (or crashes if it can't) on a certain HTML file
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Package is already in Debian
- The package uploader is currently maintaining html2text in Debian
- Last upload was on the 2025-07-19
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d/copyright is in DEP5 format

Upstream Contact: https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text/-/issues

Licenses: X11, GPL-2+

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Upstream Contact:	https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text/-/issues
Licenses:	X11, GPL-2+