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

[Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com>]

Control: reassign -1 asciidoc 8.6.9-4
Control: retitle -1 asciidoc: shouldn't pull in latex
Control: tags -1 + fixed



On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Joseph Herlant <herlantj@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).


Thanks to Raphael's suggestion I moved the asciidoc-dblatex to the
Recommends section of asciidoc and make asciidoc depend on
asciidoc-base.
This way we have a behavior that mimics the old behavior and keeps the
split in place.

I'll check with Raphael if he can sponsor this upload.

Thanks for the report,
Joseph