On Friday 28 October 2016 05:53 AM, Eric Wong wrote:
> I understand olddoc may not be worth the effort to package in
> Debian.  (I already tried to reduce dependencies in olddoc
> compared to wrongdoc, but a package is a package...)
> 
> Anyways, I suggest you guys grab the generated gemspec from the
> Rubygem or tar.gz.  You already seem to be doing that with NEWS
> and the manpages to avoid a build-dep on pandoc(*).

We are already using the rubygems.org .gem file and it has olddoc.

> Maybe the gemspec in git could have olddoc become optional, too,
> while still remaining DRY.  The email address for the public
> mailing list is already specified in multiple places, so maybe
> over-DRY-ing isn't worth it...

If you can make it optional that would be great. For now I've just
patched out the gemspec to not use olddoc. The patch and fix in rules is
ugly.