Sorry for the current state of sisu in Debian (and to some extent in Ruby
more generally). (and for the top posting here).

I have a version of sisu working with ruby 3.0 & 3.1 (it can be run
straight from the command line) ... but not made a deb of and built with
Debian dependencies. Certainly the latex/pdf output has not been tested.
Also there remain a couple of issues to check.

I am not against Debian-live shipping documentation independently but will
try to make sure sisu works as it should, (though I may request help
packaging it once at that point).
You may follow up on my  progress here or directly with me.

Thanks,
Ralph Amissah


On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:15 PM Luca Boccassi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 14:33, Roland Clobus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello list,
> >
> > On 04/04/2022 06:39, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
> > > live-manual 2:20151217.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on
> 2022-05-09
> > >
> > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:
> > > 1008405: sisu: "sisu-complete: fails to run with Ruby 3.0"
> > >   https://bugs.debian.org/1008405
> >
> > 'apt-cache rdepends sisu-complete' shows that live-manual is the
> > last/only dependency for SiSU.
> >
> > I see 3 options:
> > 1) Abandon SiSU in favour of some other format, e.g. asciidoc or
> > markdown (each has po4a-support)
> > 2) Wait for or help SiSU with the release of a Ruby 3-compatible version
> > 3) Remove live-manual from the Debian repository and keep only the
> > git-based most recent version
> >
> > I'm tempted to go for option 3.
> > What's your opinion?
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > Roland Clobus
>
> We really want to ship documentation in the distribution, it's needed
> for accessibility, offline usage, and so on.
>
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi
>
>

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