Re: requesting stretch-bpo of asciidoc needed to update bpo of git

[Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

Sure we can backport it, there's one bug I need to fix first but we have to keep in mind that asciidoc is deprecated (see #895462) so it might be better to just migrate the doc/manpage generation to a tool that has an actual active upstream...

I was waiting for asciidoctor's release (they did it yesterday so now I need to push it to Debian) to start again on the migration work with the different upstreams.

I can prioritize the move of git to something else if that helps.

Joseph

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 5:10 PM Mert Dirik <mertdirik@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 22:58 Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Joseph,

Are you interested in maintaining a stretch-backport of asciidoc?
Please let me know either way, because updating the bpo of git
requires it and I'd be happy to maintain a bpo of asciidoc if
necessary.  Oh, and please CC me your reply.

Thank you :-)
Nicholas

I've recently backported a git version in sid privately and removing the version constraint of asciidoc dependency was enough to get the package built and run successfully. AFAIK the  newer asciidoc version is only required for reproducable builds and not a hard requirement for build and test suite.