cleanups related to htmlreport test

.github/workflows/scriptcheck.yml

@@ -156,21 +156,20 @@ jobs:
       - name: test htmlreport (standalone)
         run: |
           test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
-          cd test/tools/htmlreport
-          ./check.sh
-      # Python 3.5 and 3.6 are excluded as they are not supported by setuptools-scm package for getting
-      # package version
+          test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh
+
+      # Python 3.6 is excluded as it is not supported by setuptools-scm package for getting package version
       - name: test htmlreport (pip)
-        if: matrix.python-version != '3.5' && matrix.python-version != '3.6'
+        if: matrix.python-version != '3.6'
         run: |
           python -m venv venv
           source venv/bin/activate
           python -m pip install -U pip
           pip install ./htmlreport/
           which cppcheck-htmlreport
           PIP_PACKAGE_TEST=1 test/tools/htmlreport/test_htmlreport.py
-          cd test/tools/htmlreport
-          ./check.sh
+          # TODO: does not test the pip binary
+          test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh
 
       - name: test reduce
         run: |

test/tools/htmlreport/check.sh

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash -ex
 
 # Command for checking HTML syntax with HTML Tidy, see http://www.html-tidy.org/
-tidy_version=$(tidy --version)
-
-if [[ "$tidy_version" == *"5.6.0"* ]] ;then
-    # newer tidy (5.6.0) command, if using this it is not necessary to ignore warnings:
-    tidy_cmd='tidy -o /dev/null -eq --drop-empty-elements no'
-else
-    # older tidy from 2009 (Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial comes with this old version):
-    tidy_cmd='tidy -o /dev/null -eq'
-fi
+tidy_cmd='tidy -o /dev/null -eq --drop-empty-elements no'
 
 function validate_html {
     if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
@@ -23,7 +15,7 @@ function validate_html {
 }
 
 if [ -z "$PYTHON" ]; then
-    PYTHON=python
+    PYTHON=python3
 fi
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})"