Hi Antonio, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 06:26:06PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > We're not going to have ruby-hpricot in stretch. > > ruby-hpricot has now only 2 reverse dependencies: ruby-ronn and > ruby-fast-fs. However, the number of packages build-depending on > ruby-ronn only grows, and is currently at 54ยน
Noticed that, too, mostly because I'm partially guilty for that, because I use ronn to generate unburden-home-dir's man page from Markdown since 0.4, to be able to also provide the man page in the online documentation as HTML. > ruby-hpricot is indeed dead upstream, but so is a lot of software in > Debian. Also, being dead upstream does not mean not being useful, or > necessarily being broken. Fully agree. Especially ronn does a real good job. > So I think we should give up on removing ruby-hpricot until at least one > of the following happen: > > - ruby-ronn gets rewritten to not use ruby-hpricot (unlikely since ronn > is dead upstream itself) Indeed: * Last release June 2010: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/releases * Last commit in August 2013: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/commits/master * Last comment by author on issues or pull requests in August 2013: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/pull/77#issuecomment-22620549 > - something else can replace ruby-ronn and we manage to make reverse > (build) dependencies switch to it. Before starting to use ronn in an official release of unburden-home-dir, I tried different tools and was very unsatisfied: * go-md2man * pandoc There is also https://github.com/sunaku/md2man which is not yet packaged. Haven't tried that one yet since it requires a newer version of rubygems (2.5.2) than in Debian Unstable (2.5.1): https://github.com/sunaku/binman/issues/4 Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
