Bug#792082: ITP: libtext-mediawikiformat-perl -- Convert Mediawiki markup into other text formats
Package: wnpp
Owner: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
Control: block 792077 by -1
* Package name : libtext-mediawikiformat-perl
Version : 1.04
Upstream Author : Gábor Szabó <gabor@pti.co.il>
* URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Text-MediawikiFormat
* License : Artistic or GPL-1+
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Convert Mediawiki markup into other text formats
Wikipedia and its sister projects use the PHP Mediawiki to format
their pages. Text::MediawikiFormat attempts to duplicate the Mediawiki
formatting rules. Those formatting rules can be simple and easy to use, while
providing more advanced options for the power user. They are also easy to
translate into other, more complicated markup languages with this module. It
creates HTML by default, but could produce valid POD, DocBook, XML, or any
other format imaginable.
The most important function is Text::MediawikiFormat::format(). It is not
exported by default, but will be exported as wikiformat() if any options at
all are passed to the exporter, unless the name is overridden explicitly. See
"EXPORT" for more information.
It should be noted that this module is written as a drop in replacement for
Text::WikiMarkup that expands on that modules functionality and provides a
default rule set that may be used to format text like the PHP Mediawiki. It
is also well to note early that if you just want a Mediawiki clone (you don't
need to customize it heavily and you want integration with a back end
database), you should look at Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::Mediawiki.
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This is actually an reintroduction of this package. It had been
removed in April 2014 (#743341) due to being
* RC-buggy (#711619, FTBFS with no response from upstream),
* low-popcon, and
* a leaf-package.
Since then the package's upstream has been taken over by someone else
whose first release fixed that RC-bug.
Reason for the reintroduction is that it's a dependency of
libtext-markup-perl, see #792077.
The package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Perl
Group.
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