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

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:46:23PM +0100, Sebastian Boehm wrote:
> On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, I came to the same conclusion when I first looked into it.
> 
> > We currently have 24 packages build-depending on ruby-ronn:
> 
> Thanks for the list!
> 
> I just converted ruby-build from ronn to asciidoc to see how involved
> it would be:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-build.git/commit/?id=5ce69c7a251431dc55acc258a81afc79848bbe3f
> 
> While the asciidoc conversion itself is relatively straightforward, it
> would be great to see #692274 addressed before tackling this. At the
> moment, the ronn build dependency cannot be replaced by asciidoc, but
> instead has to be replaced by "asciidoc, libxml2-utils, docbook-xml,
> xmlto".

can you try asciidoctor instead? I just uploaded 1.5.3, which got
support for creating manpages, 2 days ago. It's also Ruby and maintained
by the team so it will be way easier for us to fiddle with it if
needed.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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