Bug 12720

Summary: Replace asciidoc with asciidoctor
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Ross Burton <ross.burton>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium CC: bluelightning, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, stephano
Version: 2.5   
Target Milestone: 4.99   
Hardware: All   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Ross Burton 2018-04-30 04:51:10 UTC 
asciidoc is dead upstream now [1] and won't move to Python 3, so we should consider packaging the official replacement asciidoctor [2].  Annoyingly this is now written in Ruby, so we either give up and add Ruby to the host dependencies, or ruby-native is going to be more important in builds.

[1] https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/releases/tag/8.6.10.  Which is also a version we don't package so we should upgrade first.  We'll want to cherry-pick [3] though.
[2] https://asciidoctor.org
[3] https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc/commit/2f48d458871b66155d8417e5f096ce17acaeab93
Comment 1 Ross Burton 2019-04-03 09:45:41 UTC 
Less important now that we found the official unofficial port of asciidoc to Py3, which is now in master.
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2019-06-13 10:34:08 UTC 
The py3 asciidoc is sort of maintained so we can use that for now.