<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Hi Soren, all,<br><br>This sounds good to me. I have 2.6.3 staged in Salsa, please let me know if I should upload that or hold off for now.<br><br>Thanks for looking into this! Let me know if I can help further.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Simon Quigley<br>tsimonq2@debian.org</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On February 23, 2026 3:11:27 PM CST, Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="net-thunderbird-android__plain-text-message-pre"><div dir="auto">Simon and Manuel,<br><br>I see that you have both been doing work on ruby-commonmarker. The current <br>version in Debian is 0.23.10, which is a legacy branch. The current upstream <br>version is 2.6.3 which involves a lot of breaking changes.<br><br>There are two packages in Debian that depend on ruby-commonmarker: redmine <br>and ruby-jekyll-commonmark.<br><br>The current version of redmine requires commonmarker ~> 2.3.0.<br><br><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/blob/debian/latest/Gemfile">https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/blob/debian/latest/Gemfile</a>?<br>ref_type=heads#L21<br><br>There does not appear to be significant differences between commonmarker 2.3.0 <br>and 2.6.3, so I think we are probably safe to use the latest upstream.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker/releases">https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker/releases</a><br><br>Doing so will break ruby-jekyll-commonmark, which depends on commonmarker -> <br>0.23.4.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/blob/master/jekyll-commonmark.gemspec#L19">https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/blob/master/jekyll-commonmark.gemspec#L19</a><br><br>There is an open upstream issue to support commonmarker 2.x, but so far there <br>has been no response.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/issues/61">https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/issues/61</a><br><br>ruby-jekyll-commonmark has low popcon installs.<br><br><a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ruby-jekyll-commonmark">https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ruby-jekyll-commonmark</a><br><br>I try to avoid doing updates that break software. However, in this case, I <br>propose we update ruby-commonmarker to fix redmine and the three transitions <br>it is blocking.<br><br>I have included Daniel, the Uploader of ruby-jekyll-commonmark, to get his <br>feedback.<br><br></div></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>