Re: Bug#1053686: pandoc: cannot fulfill the build dependencies

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Quoting Ilias Tsitsimpis (2023-11-23 21:10:36)
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 09:28AM, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 10:16PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Quoting John MacFarlane (2023-11-16 19:25:17)
> > > > > Removing lua support would be most unfortunate!  If you need help from upstream in getting things to work, let me know.
> > > >
> > > > I agree: Pandoc with its core scripting language disabled is a severely
> > > > crippled Pandoc.
> > >
> > > Understood, but I am not really sure how to move forward, since Pandoc
> > > doesn't fully support the latest Stackage LTS. I can help with
> > > packaging/upgrade libraries if you can provide the right set of
> > > libraries we need.
> >
> > I uploaded the following packages:
> >
> > * haskell-hslua-cli_v1.3.0-1,
> > * haskell-hslua-module-doclayout_v1.1.0-1
> > * haskell-hslua-module-zip_v1.1.0-1
> >
> > I believe the next step is to update pandoc to 3.0.1, so we can then
> > package pandoc-lua-engine, pandoc-server and eventually pandoc-cli.
> >
> > Jonas, how can I help move this forward? Pandoc is the last blocker to
> > finish the Haskell transition.
>
> I think this will be the best way forward:
>
> Haskell team introduces new source package haskell-pandoc.
>
> When available, I can build package pandoc depending on it.
>
> I really don't like breaking upstream project pandoc into two Debian
> source packages like that, but I don't have the energy at the moment to
> try fix dh-haskell (which I suspect will be similar work as I am doing
> to dh-cargo currently).

I'm working on this (packaging haskell-pandoc).

Regards,
Scott