Bug#894271: ITP: cmark-gfm -- GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown parser

[Andrej Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 28 March 2018 at 03:11, Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Keith Packard <keithp@debian.org>
>
> * Package name    : cmark-gfm
>   Version         : 0.28.3.gfm.12
>   Upstream Author : John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
> * URL             : https://ithub.com/github/cmark
> * License         : BSD, MIT/X
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown
> parser
>
> Common Markdown provides a useful standardized language for building formatted
> documents. The 'cmark' parser, already in Debian, provides a basic parser
> implementing the core Common Markdown standard. People involved in the GitHub
> system have forked 'cmark' in a way which leaves the core language unchanged
> but extends the system to add table and other additional formatting methods.
>
> This extended version of Common Markdown is used within the github system for
> formatting .md files in project repositories and, as such, is becoming widely
> used within that environment.
>
> I've got preliminary packaging working here:
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/keithp/cmark-gfm.git/
>
> I'm packaging this so I can use it to replace asciidoc in the altos package as
> asciidoc is being deprecated.

Out of curiosity, how does it compare to
https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark? I’m stuck with packaging
hotdoc precisely because I didn’t want to introduce a fork of cmark
into Debian.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej