[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#1073092: markdown is no longer scheduled for removal

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Control: retitle 1073088 abinit: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073092 erlang-cowlib: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073093 glogg: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073094 gtk3-nocsd: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073096 keras: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073098 libvcflib: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073098 math-numeric-tower-clojure: build-depends on markdown
Control: retitle 1073109 vowpal-wabbit: build-depends on markdown
Control: severity 1073088 normal
Control: severity 1073092 normal
Control: severity 1073093 normal
Control: severity 1073094 normal
Control: severity 1073096 normal
Control: severity 1073098 normal
Control: severity 1073098 normal
Control: severity 1073109 normal

Hi! markdown is no longer scheduled for removal, but please be aware
that it is not maintained upstream. While the Markdown language itself
does not change over time, the markdown package (which is the original,
"canonical" implementation) has some minor bugs which may generate
surprising output in some corner case. What I'd suggest is switching to
a CommonMark implementation, like cmark or md4c's md2html, assuming your
Markdown files are compliant with the CommonMark specification.

Alternatively, if you don't want to convert your files to CommonMark but
would still like to avoid using the original markdown implementation,
you can try to switch to the discount package. It tries to follow the
original markdown implementation, but in a way it has its own Markdown
dialect and I would not recommended it. It may also mess with your
output in unexpected (but documented) ways.

Of course, if using the markdown package is fine for your needs, there's
nothing wrong with it! Feel free to mark this bug as wontfix.

Bye :D