Re: Move from asciidoc to asciidoc-base as build dependency

[Joseph Herlant]

Hi,

Another solution would be to do another change to the way the package
is split before the final release and make asciidoc be a metapackage
for asciidoc-base and not asciidoc-dblatex as proposed in #850301.

The caveat to that is that end users that were installing previous
versions of asciidoc (with the Recommends) will have to switch to
asciidoc-dblatex to keep the dblatex dependency.

Do you think it would be a better solution and generate less work for everybody?

Note that the split happened because several users were unhappy about
this dependency.

Thanks
Joseph

Re: Move from asciidoc to asciidoc-base as build dependency

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi,

>I'm thinking how to make the Build-Depends fits both sid/stretch and

>jessie-backports.
>Whether the following is good enough? or appending the version is better?
>
>Build-Depends: asciidoc-base | asciidoc


backporting asciidoc should be the right solution here
(or reverting the change for backports, but since the affected packages
are many, I think a backport is preferred)

Alternative dependencies are not evaluated in Debian build machines.

G.

Move from asciidoc to asciidoc-base as build dependency

[Roger Shimizu]

[ CC mentors list ]

Dear Joseph,

I find this change affects many packages, so I CC mentors.

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Joseph Herlant  wrote:
> Package: shadowsocks-libev
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Asciidoc has been split in different packages in #637006 and #729242.
> This split has arrived in Testing.
>
> To lower the number of dependencies to install during the build, could
> you evaluate the switch of the build-depends from asciidoc to
> asciidoc-base instead of asciidoc please?
>
> asciidoc-base is enough to build manpages and html pages.

I'm thinking how to make the Build-Depends fits both sid/stretch and
jessie-backports.
Whether the following is good enough? or appending the version is better?

Build-Depends: asciidoc-base | asciidoc

Thanks!

Cheers,
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