Re: Is the pandoc package dead?
Hi Rafael,
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 07:28AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> Is the pandoc package actively maintained? The upstream authors have
> recently released version 3.5 [1]. The version available in unstable/testing
> is 3.1.3. Debian is severely lagging behind.
The pandoc package is actively maintained. Updating pandoc to a newer
version is not easy. It depends on a lot of Haskell libraries and
usually involves going through a full Haskell transition, which involves
updating more than 1000 packages. We usually do such a transition once
per year.
> Besides that, I cannot even build the package on my up-to-date sid system,
> due to unsatisfied build-dependencies.
Right now, we are under a Haskell transition (see #1080952). We are
working on updating pandoc to version 3.1.11.1, which is the version
supported by the latest Stackage LTS (see
https://www.stackage.org/lts-22.37). Some Haskell libraries (including
pandoc) may not build until the transition is over.
> Lots of packages in Debian use pandoc for generating man pages and this is
> triggering Lintian warnings (see Bug#1068734 [2]). This has been fixed
> upstream since version 3,1.7 of pandoc!
After the transition is over, we will have 3.1.11.1 available in Debian.
> Finally, the package still uses cdbs, which is an orphaned package (see
> Bug#1026085 [3]). Isn't it time to migrate to dh?
The whole Haskell ecosystem in Debian uses CDBS. Unfortunately no-one is
working right now on migrating to dh, since it involves a lot of work,
and the Debian Haskell group is under staffed. Any help is more than
welcome :)
--
Ilias
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