On 18 November 2015 at 00:32, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> 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".
