Gary,
One of the reasons I remember for using asciidoc instead of asciidoctor was that "asciidoctor pulls in tons of ruby stuff".
I installed asciidoc on a fresh debian install yesterday, and it wanted to download 175MB of packages, including texlive. As such, I am not sure if it is "lighter" than asciidoctor.
So the only reason I have left against asciidoctor is that uses the that newfangled ruby stuff. But then, I prefer FORTRAN to that new kid, C, so feel free to ignore me.
TLDR; drop asciidoc support.
- People playing with GPS, like me, can install asciidoctor
- People installing packages on leaf nodes will use pre-built man pages, so do not need to know this stuff
- People building their own packages to install fleetwide will not need man pages locally, anyway
- etc