Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 11, 2021, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <YJrWXfmaNVIL/TzT@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <609ad46776dec_6011e208d7@natae.notmuch>

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 02:00:55PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> > > > It's not too hard to install an updated gem, but not quite as nice
> > > > as using the system package (it also makes things weird for
> > > > building the stable Debian package itself, which would want to
> > > > rely only on other packages; but of course any proposed change to
> > > > the doc toolchain would be for new versions, and would not get
> > > > backported there anyway).
> 
> Doing `gem install` solves the problem for whomever wants to build the
> latest git in Debian stable.
> 
> Building Debian stable packages is something else.

Perhaps I wasn't clear with the "but of course" part of my statement. It was meant to rebut the earlier half of the parenthetical. I.e., drawing that same distinction as "we don't have to worry about packaging Debian stable here".

-Peff