Hello Christoph, I am the upstream maintainer of asciidoc, and trying to understand what changes might be necessary there to comply with Debian if possible.
As part of a2x, there is already a way to specify non-default options to xsltproc during execution, by using the "--xsltproc-opts" option. Usage then for using --nonet for your example would be: a2x -f manpage --no-xmllint --xsltproc-opts --nonet <manpage>.adoc Does this meet the needs of Debian, or is is that that a2x must specify `--nonet` for xsltproc by default, and that using the network have to be opt-in? Regards, Matthew Peveler