[Debian-med-packaging] Problem updating spades backport

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Afif,

>>>> In this light I would rather try backporting asciidoctor 1.5.4 
>>>> to jessie (it should only depend on Ruby) because I have
>>>> switched manpage builds for most of my packages to asciidoctor
>>>> now, and that would address this problem for good in the
>>>> backports ;)
>>>
>>> FTR: I just tried building asciidoctor 1.5.4 in a jessie chroot,
>>> and it built with no problems, and all test succeeded.
>>
>> This sounds like the most sustainable solution.
> 
> True, though I was hoping to avoid having to wait for asciidoctor to be
> processed in backports-NEW just to update the spades backport, which
> isn't new. All this was to get circlator backport, but that's been
> delayed anyway because of this architecture issue. I might as well do
> that at this point, though.

Many thanks! I would do it, but I can't upload new packages... yet.

Cheers
Sascha


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