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

[Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com>]

Hi Julien,

I understand your frustration

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

dblatex was in the "Recommends" of asciidoc. By default the Recommends
packages are installed, so the actual users had that installation by
default before. That's the reason why asciidoc is now a dependency of
asciidoc-dbaltex.

What could be done would be to have asciidoc pulling asciidoc-base
instead of asciidoc-dbaltex. But that would impact the users relying
on the fact that dblatex was installed along with asciidoc before
(yes, there are users relying on that).

This split has been ask for several years now to be able to have a
package that don't have dblatex in the recommends.

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

Yes, I realized that after sending a few mails. Sorry for that confusion.

Joseph