[Debian-med-packaging] Problem updating spades backport

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hello,

[Cc'ing Sascha and preserving original messages below in case he missed
this thread]

على السبت 26 آذار 2016 ‫00:00، كتب Andreas Tille:
> Nit hat I have a clear preference but a third option would be to
> take over the readily rendered manpage inside the backport.

I'm not sure i understand what you mean, Andreas. Do you mean to
manually build the manpages and then include them in the debian/ directory?

I hadn't answered before because I was hoping for a comment from Sascha.

Thanks and regards
Afif

> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:41:45PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>> Hi, Sascha,
>> Since the latest spades package just entered testing yesterday, I went
>> to rebuild it for jessie to update the backport.
>>
>> Unfortunately, the build failed when generating the manpages:
>>
>> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/spades-3.7.1+dfsg'
>>    debian/rules override_dh_installman
>> make[1]: Entering directory '/<<BUILDDIR>>/spades-3.7.1+dfsg'
>> mkdir -p /<<BUILDDIR>>/spades-3.7.1+dfsg/debian/man
>> asciidoctor -a docdate='' -b manpage
>> /<<BUILDDIR>>/spades-3.7.1+dfsg/debian/man_src/*.adoc
>> Couldn't find a view in @views for document
>>   Use --trace for backtrace
>> debian/rules:48: recipe for target 'override_dh_installman' failed
>> make[1]: *** [override_dh_installman] Error 1
>>
>>
>> It seems to me that the version of asciidoctor in jessie is too old for
>> this task (0.1.4-3 vs 1.5.4-1 in testing/unstable). I'm tempted to
>> revert your commit that replaced ronn with asciidoctor in the backports
>> branch, but since you did it for reproducibility reasons, I thought I
>> should get your opinion first. The alternative would be to backport the
>> newer asciidoctor to jessie or to use another tool that would work in
>> jessie. What do you think?
>>
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Afif
>>