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+# (C) Serge Victor 2020
+
+# we always try to operate on recent ubuntu LTS
+FROM ubuntu:focal
+
+LABEL maintainer="ser@gnu.org"
+LABEL version="0.1"
+LABEL description="LDP Builder as a Docker image"
+
+ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+RUN apt update
+
+# installing required packages and cleaning up after
+RUN apt -y install texlive-font-utils linuxdoc-tools-text linuxdoc-tools-latex docbook-dsssl docbook-xsl docbook-utils htmldoc htmldoc-common docbook-xsl html2text docbook5-xml docbook-xsl-ns jing asciidoc libxml2-utils python3-stdeb fakeroot python3-all python3-networkx python3-nose fop ldp-docbook-xsl ldp-docbook-dsssl docbook opensp dh-python git python-all && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* && apt clean
+
+# getting our builder soft
+RUN git clone https://github.com/tLDP/python-tldp
+RUN cd python-tldp && rm -rf debian && python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb
+RUN dpkg -i python-tldp/deb_dist/python3-tldp_*_all.deb
+
+# we are done?
+RUN ldptool --dump-cfg
+RUN rm -rf python-tldp