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

[Jason Pleau]

Hi

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:32:08 -0200 Antonio Terceiro
<terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 01:37:23PM +0100, Sebastian Boehm wrote:
> > Just for the record: ronn's upstream seems to be dead. The latest
> > release is more than five years old and there haven't been any
> > upstream commits for over two years.
> > 
> > While ronn is a useful tool, asciidoc and asciidoctor are viable
> > alternatives and are actively maintained as well as available in
> > stretch and jessie.
> 
> 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.
> 
> We currently have 24 packages build-depending on ruby-ronn:
> 
> $ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends -n -s Package ruby-ronn Sources | sort -u

> i3blocks

I maintain the above package, and will contact upstream if another
format can be used instead of ronn so that i3blocks can be built on
stretch without issues.


Sorry for not noticing this bug earlier

> 
> -- 
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>

Thanks

-- 
Jason Pleau