[DRE-maint] Bug#884213: asciidoctor: New version with substantial fixes and improvements released

[Jaap Keuter]

Package: asciidoctor
Version: 1.5.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider packaging new upstream version 1.5.6.1, which, according to the
release information:

"This iteration began as a minor release and morphed into one of the most 
important and substantial releases to date. This release brings several landmark 
features, major performance improvements (25% increase in speed), critical bug 
fixes, and lots of important internal restructuring."

and

"This release fixes regressions and integration problems that were introduced 
in the 1.5.6 release."

and since

"asciidoc (8.6.10-1) unstable; urgency=low

  The version 8.6.10 has been marked as FINAL RELEASE by the upstream maintainers.
  They advise their users to move to asciidoctor.
  See: https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/releases"

it is important to have an up-to-date version of asciidoctor in the repository.

Regards.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages asciidoctor depends on:
ii  ruby  1:2.3.3

asciidoctor recommends no packages.

asciidoctor suggests no packages.

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