[Debian-med-packaging] Problem updating spades backport

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 09:38:41PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> 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?

Yes, exactly.  This is what I'm frequently doing if automatic tools like
help2man are doing a poor job to create a manpage.  For this purpose I'm
using the createmanpages helper script.  I simply install the resulting
package locally, copy this script to te debian/ dir and adapt it to the
name of the binary(s) without manpage(s).  Afterwards I'm editing the
manpage(s) and leave it (them) inside the debian dir.  That's a perfectly
valid approach also if the automatic tool might do a better job.
 
Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/helper-scripts/createmanpages?view=markup

> > 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
> >>
> 
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