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
