Bug#889017: Bug#888953: gobby accesses the network during the build

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2018 at 12:40:16 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
> I'll note that I was told to stop build-depending on rarian-compat in
> #885642, which then introduced this bug.

That request was less clear than it could have been, but the intention
was to stop using the deprecated documentation toolchain, not just stop
build-depending on parts of it.

> > (For context, Scrollkeeper is very obsolete, rarian-compat is an
> > obsolete
> > compatibility shim for Scrollkeeper, and gnome-doc-utils has itself
> > been superseded by yelp-tools; it's deprecations all the way down.
> 
> Well, I suppose it'd help if there would be some guidance on how to do
> things today. I'm (somewhat) happy to fix it upstream if needed.

Here's upstream's migration guide, with links to the commits used to
migrate an example package:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure
(I'll try to follow up to the other bugs from the same MBF as #885642 at
some point with a reference to this.)

    smcv