Re: live-manual is marked for autoremoval from testing

Sorry for the current state of sisu in Debian (and to some extent in Ruby more generally). (and for the top posting here).

I have a version of sisu working with ruby 3.0 & 3.1 (it can be run straight from the command line) ... but not made a deb of and built with Debian dependencies. Certainly the latex/pdf output has not been tested.

Also there remain a couple of issues to check.

I am not against Debian-live shipping documentation independently but will try to make sure sisu works as it should, (though I may request help packaging it once at that point).

You may follow up on my progress here or directly with me.

Thanks,

Ralph Amissah

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 5:15 PM Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 14:33, Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> wrote:
>
> Hello list,
>
> On 04/04/2022 06:39, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
> > live-manual 2:20151217.1 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2022-05-09
> >
> > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs:
> > 1008405: sisu: "sisu-complete: fails to run with Ruby 3.0"
> > https://bugs.debian.org/1008405
>
> 'apt-cache rdepends sisu-complete' shows that live-manual is the
> last/only dependency for SiSU.
>
> I see 3 options:
> 1) Abandon SiSU in favour of some other format, e.g. asciidoc or
> markdown (each has po4a-support)
> 2) Wait for or help SiSU with the release of a Ruby 3-compatible version
> 3) Remove live-manual from the Debian repository and keep only the
> git-based most recent version
>
> I'm tempted to go for option 3.
> What's your opinion?
>
> With kind regards,
> Roland Clobus

We really want to ship documentation in the distribution, it's needed
for accessibility, offline usage, and so on.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi