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

[Antonio Terceiro]

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
chake
coquelicot
cura-engine
dbab
foodcritic
foremancli
gazebo
git-extras
haproxyctl
i3blocks
ignition-math2
ignition-transport
jq
npm
pgloader
python-lua
r10k
rerun
ruby-build
ruby-coveralls
seqprep
shapelib
slt
vcsh

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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