Re: What remains to be done before the freeze
+++ Joachim Breitner [May 09 12 23:15 ]:
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 11:16 -0700 schrieb John MacFarlane:
> > +++ Joachim Breitner [May 09 12 19:03 ]:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.05.2012, 07:59 -0700 schrieb John MacFarlane:
> > > > There is at least one fairly bad bug in pandoc 1.9.2, and I'm
> > > > planning to release a new version 1.9.3 fairly soon, which will
> > > > fix it and several others (and add a docbook reader). It would
> > > > be terrific if this could be debianized before the freeze (and
> > > > dependencies highlighting-kate and texmath brought up to date).
> > >
> > > should be fine.
> > >
> > > > One question, though. Currently the 1.9.3 code base requires
> > > > blaze-html 0.5.*. I'm not sure whether debian plans to upgrade
> > > > blaze-html or not. If not, then I could add a Cabal flag to
> > > > make it possible to compile pandoc with blaze-html 0.4.*.
> > >
> > > If all other reverse build dependencies of blaze-html build with the new
> > > version, then we can upgrade. Who wants to check this?
> >
> > Note: the change to blaze-html 0.5 is a major one, and packages that
> > have not been specifically updated to use the new API will almost
> > certainly break. In the case of yesod's packages, I've noticed that
> > they've added a 'blaze_html_0_5' cabal flag that can be used to select
> > the new API.
>
> if its a major change I’d rather be switching to conservative mode by
> now and _not_ upgrade before the freeze, unless there are important
> reasons to switch.
That's sensible. I'll include a blaze_html_0_5 flag in pandoc (off by
default). If you do decide to package blaze 0.5, the flag can be
set.
John
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