Mitigating effects of Bug #750946

[Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>]

Dear all,

The efforts to patch Bug #750946 in libhtml-html5-parser-perl with a simple 
check for UTF-8 met some strong resistence from leading figures in the Perl 
community, so, we're kinda out of ideas on that now. 

However, as HTML::HTML5::Parser is rather unimportant to many of the 
modules still threatened by removal from testing, we should look further 
into mitigating the effects if libhtml-html5-parser-perl is removed from 
testing. 

I've looked through the packages, I am very familiar with many of them, 
either because I'm the upstream dev, or I'm an active user. I have 
identified the packages where HTML::HTML5::Parser is at most a nice to have 
addon. I don't really understand how the relationship arises in many of 
these cases, so I'm asking your help to find how it does and what we can do 
to relax it in Debian. There are two exceptions, I have looked into 
librdf-endpoint-perl 
libatteanx-endpoint-perl 
and there's a possibility to change the parser in there. I'm looking into 
that.

These are the packages I don't quite understand would have a dep on 
HTML::HTML5::Parser:

perlrdf 
libapp-perlrdf-command-query-perl 
libatteanx-store-ldf-perl 
libatteanx-store-sparql-perl 
librdf-acl-perl 
librdf-generator-void-perl 
librdf-linkeddata-perl 
librdf-query-client-perl 

Could you please advice on the nature of the dependency from these to  
libhtml-html5-parser-perl?

Please CC any replies, I'm not on the list.

Best,

Kjetil