Bug#1059146: pandoc produces html5 that gives lintian errors

[Andreas Rönnquist <gusnan@debian.org>]

Package: pandoc
Version: 3.0.1+ds-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Pandoc produces html5 that gives lintian errors - for example:

E: allegro5-doc: privacy-breach-uses-embedded-file You may use the
node-html5shiv package (virtual package).
(//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7.3/html5shiv-printshiv.min.js)
[usr/share/doc/allegro5-doc/refman/acodec.html]

This is due to the html5 template in pandoc contains the following code block:

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/3.7.3/html5shiv-printshiv.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

This is reported to pandoc upstream, but they find the problem not
worth "introducing additional complexities to deal with this", because
it only affects older IE browsers.

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6809 .

Perhaps a reasonable solution would be to update the template in the
debian pandoc package to not produce html code that gives the lintian
error?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pandoc depends on:
ii  libc6        2.37-13
ii  libffi8      3.4.4-2
ii  libgmp10     2:6.3.0+dfsg-2
ii  liblua5.4-0  5.4.6-1
ii  libyaml-0-2  0.2.5-1
ii  pandoc-data  3.0.1-3
ii  zlib1g       1:1.3.dfsg-3

pandoc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pandoc suggests:
pn  citation-style-language-styles  <none>
pn  context                         <none>
pn  ghc                             <none>
pn  groff                           <none>
pn  libjs-katex                     <none>
ii  libjs-mathjax                   2.7.9+dfsg-1
pn  librsvg2-bin                    <none>
pn  nodejs                          <none>
pn  pandoc-citeproc                 <none>
ii  perl                            5.36.0-10
pn  php                             <none>
pn  python                          <none>
pn  r-base-core                     <none>
ii  ruby                            1:3.1
pn  texlive-latex-extra             <none>
ii  texlive-latex-recommended       2023.20231207-1
ii  texlive-luatex                  2023.20231207-1
pn  texlive-xetex                   <none>
pn  wkhtmltopdf                     <none>

-- no debconf information