Package Details: ronn 0.7.3-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/ronn.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: ronn
Description: Converts markdown to roff manpages
Upstream URL: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn
Licenses: MIT
Submitter: ticpu
Maintainer: ticpu
Last Packager: ticpu
Votes: 0
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2023-10-26 04:32 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2023-10-26 04:32 (UTC)

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Drack commented on 2025-02-17 06:29 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-17 06:29 (UTC) by Drack)

We both agreed that ronn builds correctly. ;) However, if we try to launch it, we will get a runtime error such that hpricot is missing. And if we try to build and install hpricot, the build will fail (at least, on my attempt). And the project is stated to be unmaintained. Sorry if my previous messages were not clear about this! :)

ticpu commented on 2025-02-16 22:32 (UTC)

I just double-checked and from a fresh archlinux+paru image, ronn still builds correctly. It doesn't seem to require hpricot here.

podman run --rm -ti docker.io/ticpu/archlinux-paru paru -S ronn --noconfirm

Drack commented on 2025-02-16 07:21 (UTC)

Hey @ticpu! Thank you for the answer. :) Unfortunately, I do not known much more about ronn itself or the Ruby ecosystem. For what I had to do with it, launching it inside a container was fine. I'm not interested into trying to maintain this (dead ?) software... Sorry.

ticpu commented on 2025-02-15 17:05 (UTC)

I'm sorry @Drack but I have almost no knowledge of ronn and the Ruby ecosystem. I took this package as it was failing to build as a dependency. If you wish to maintain it I can disown it for you.

Drack commented on 2025-02-15 10:36 (UTC) (edited on 2025-02-15 10:53 (UTC) by Drack)

But the hpricot project is no longer maintained and the C codebase refuse to compile anyway on Arch, so I'm wondering to which extent ronn may/will still be used.

To people that needs to use this package, the simplest way is surely to fire-up a Ubuntu Docker container to use the packaged pre-built version of ronn.

Drack commented on 2025-02-15 10:30 (UTC)

In the PKGBUILD, the --ignore-dependencies is passed to gem. As a result, installing using the PKGBUILD end up with the following error: 

Could not find 'hpricot' (>= 0.8.2) among 67 total gem(s) (Gem::MissingSpecError)

Is it on purpose?