On 8/25/20 10:10 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
I (and Debian) consider it critically important to build binary from the preferred source, but feel free to remove this in Ubuntu. An upstream-side alternative it to replace ronn with pandoc, or any other alternative.
Upstream side answer: pandoc brings MUCH more external dependencies that ronn. So if ronn is a problem, pandoc will be a BIG problem.
Actually, I don't see a lot of benefits from recompiling man page during packaging, and one disadvantage: ronn sets man page date to the current date at the moment of compilation, which will make a wrong illusion that Debian comes with the newer version of the man page, that any other distro.
-- Wishes, Alexander Pevzner (pzz@apevzner.com)