[DRE-maint] Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

[Sebastian Boehm]

On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> I had a quick look at ronn and it looks like a lost case. it seems to convert
> the markdown input to HTML first, and only then from HTML to roff, and the
> dependency on hpricot seems very entrenched.

Yes, I came to the same conclusion when I first looked into it.

> We currently have 24 packages build-depending on ruby-ronn:

Thanks for the list!

I just converted ruby-build from ronn to asciidoc to see how involved
it would be:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-build.git/commit/?id=5ce69c7a251431dc55acc258a81afc79848bbe3f

While the asciidoc conversion itself is relatively straightforward, it
would be great to see #692274 addressed before tackling this. At the
moment, the ronn build dependency cannot be replaced by asciidoc, but
instead has to be replaced by "asciidoc, libxml2-utils, docbook-xml,
xmlto".