Re: What remains to be done before the freeze

[John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>]

+++ Joachim Breitner [May 09 12 19:03 ]:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

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.