On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:46:23PM +0100, Sebastian Boehm wrote: > On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro <terce...@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 <terce...@debian.org>
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