Re: Is it possible to update pandoc, please?

[Scott Talbert <swt@techie.net>]

On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Renzo Davoli wrote:

> Dear debian-haskell maintainers,
>
> 		 The latest Debian SID package is v. 3.0.1 while pandoc upstream has already
> released 3.1.11.
>
> I am using pandoc to generate man pages in several projects (and Debian packages).
> https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=virtualsquare%40cs.unibo.it
>
> Unfortunately man pages created by pandoc < 3.1.7 are incompatible with
> latest groff.
> See: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9020
>
> Lintian complaints for man pages generated by pandoc < 3.1.7.
>
> Have you planned to upgrade pandoc any time soon?

The Haskell Team generally tracks a Stackage LTS release.  Currently, we 
are tracking LTS 21.16, which contains (haskell-)pandoc 3.0.1.  Since 
haskell-pandoc is close to a leaf package, it should likely be possible to 
update it without breaking anything else.  I'll take a look at updating 
it.

@Jonas, what coordination is needed with you / src:pandoc, since you seem 
to be keeping the versions aligned - do we need to let you know ahead of 
time, or just do it and let you know?

Scott