Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 pandoc: please upgrade to 2.4 or newer to support parsing man format Control: severity -2 wishlist Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2020-05-06 21:14:24) > Quoting James Youngman (2020-05-06 20:43:10) > > It seems to me that that interpretation was rather optimistic (and > > easily falsifiable using the provided reproduction steps): > > > > horizon:~$ rm -f bbcbasic.html; pandoc -f man -s -o bbcbasic.html > > /tmp/minimal_nroff2.1 ; echo exit status $?; ls -l bbcbasic.html > > Unknown reader: man > > exit status 1 > > /bin/ls: cannot access 'bbcbasic.html': No such file or directory Quoting John MacFarlane (2020-05-06 21:50:11) > As you can see from pandoc's changelog, the man reader was only > introduced in version 2.4. You're using an older version, so... Thanks again, John. > > Please reconsider the severity change. Hereby forking the bugreport to separately track upgrading the pandoc package to a version which supports parsing man format. Please do elaborate if you meant differently with your request for severity change. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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