Bug#850301: xorg: Move from asciidoc to asciidoc-base as dependency

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

reassign -1 asciidoc 8.6.9-4
severity -1 important
retitle -1 asciidoc: shouldn't pull in latex

On 01/05/2017 09:17 PM, Joseph Herlant wrote:
> Package: Xorg
> 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.
> 
> In addition to that, the xmlto package has been added to the
> recommends of the asciidoc-base package in #692274, so it might not be
> mandatory to have it in the buid-depends anymore.
> 
Please revert the change in asciidoc instead.  It's unreasonable IMO to
ask users (and I'm also talking about actual users, not just packages
building man pages) to install latex stuff which most of them probably
won't need.  If asciidoc merely Recommended the dblatex stuff, as (as
far as I can tell) it used to, this would mostly go away.

Also, whether something is in Recommends or not is irrelevant for
build-depends, since Recommends are ignored for package builds.

Cheers,
Julien