Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2016-06-30 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > > While ronn is a useful tool, asciidoc and asciidoctor are viable > > alternatives and are actively maintained as well as available in > > stretch and jessie. Since when do asciidoc and asciidoctor support Markdown? > I had a quick look at ronn and it looks like a

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2016-06-10 Thread Jason Pleau
Hi On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:32:08 -0200 Antonio Terceiro wrote: > 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 t

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-11-19 Thread Sebastian Boehm
On 19 November 2015 at 14:41, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > can you try asciidoctor instead? I just uploaded 1.5.3, which got > support for creating manpages, 2 days ago. Great timing, thanks! asciidoctor works just fine and significantly cuts down the number of build dependencies and hence build ti

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-11-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:46:23PM +0100, Sebastian Boehm wrote: > On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro 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 > > depende

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-11-19 Thread Sebastian Boehm
On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro 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

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-11-17 Thread 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

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-11-15 Thread Sebastian Boehm
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 st

Bug#796497: ruby-ronn: depends on obsolete ruby-hpricot

2015-08-22 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
Package: ruby-ronn Severity: important Dear Maintainer, your package "ruby-ronn" depends on ruby-hpricot, which itself is obsolete. We, the Ruby Extras team, do not intend to ship it with stretch. Please find another XML/HTML parser to use, for example ruby-nokogiri. I'm filing this report with