Bug#963129: pandoc: conversion from docbook: missing releaseinfo information

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Package: pandoc
Version: 2.5-3+b1
Severity: normal

When converting from docbook, releaseinfo is ignored, e.g. on

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";>
<book>

<bookinfo>
<title>Title</title>
<author>
<firstname>Firstname</firstname><surname>Lastname</surname>
</author>
<releaseinfo>1.17</releaseinfo>
</bookinfo>

<para>Text.</para>

</book>

with:

  pandoc -s -f docbook manual.xml -t html
  pandoc -s -f docbook manual.xml -t texinfo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pandoc depends on:
ii  libatomic1   10.1.0-4
ii  libc6        2.30-8
ii  libffi7      3.3-4
ii  libgmp10     2:6.2.0+dfsg-6
ii  libpcre3     2:8.39-13
ii  pandoc-data  2.5-3
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

pandoc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pandoc suggests:
ii  context                    2020.03.10.20200331-1
pn  ghc                        <none>
ii  groff                      1.22.4-5
ii  libjs-mathjax              2.7.8+dfsg-1
ii  librsvg2-bin               2.48.7-1
pn  node-katex                 <none>
ii  nodejs                     12.18.0~dfsg-3
pn  pandoc-citeproc            <none>
ii  perl                       5.30.3-4
pn  php                        <none>
ii  python                     2.7.17-2
pn  r-base-core                <none>
ii  ruby                       1:2.7+1
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2020.20200522-1
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2020.20200522-1
ii  texlive-luatex             2020.20200522-1
ii  texlive-xetex              2020.20200522-1
pn  wkhtmltopdf                <none>

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