getDebianAnnouncements.py requires Debian version of html2text

[stevemeier]

Hello,

trying to run the getDebianAnnouncements.py and parseDebian.py on my CentOS 7 machine I got stuck as parseDebian could not seem to read the files previous downloaded by getDebianAnnouncements.py.

After building html2text from it's source code (http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/files.shtml) it still didn't work. Only after applying the Debian patches (http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/html2text/html2text_1.3.2a-24.debian.tar.xz) and recompiling does it finally work.

Please add this information to the README so that other users on non-Debian platforms can save a lot of time. Thanks!

[philicious]

Hi @stevemeier ! thanks for the info !

personally, I havent worked with Spacewalk anymore for like 2-3yrs and I dont maintain these scripts anymore as I cannot test them properly.
however, I invite everyone to collaborate here. nice to see this little collection is still of some help for people