Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:
>
>> * gnu/packages/documentation.scm (asciidoc)[arguments]: Add
>> set-xml-binary-paths phase.
>> [inputs]: Add libxml2 and libxslt.
>
> LGTM. I guess this removes the need to add libxml2 and libxslt to
> packages using asciidoc, e.g. offlineimap.

Yes. Debian dealt with the same problem a few years back[1]. Nowadays
libxml2-utils is a dependency of asciidoc-base, though I'm not sure what
is done about xsltproc. Nevertheless, it's used by upstream along with
some other tools[2].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692274

[2] http://asciidoc.org/README.html