[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#723022: Bug#723022: [pandoc] package split with only Recommends: causes FTBFS on other packages

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Jonas Smedegaard [Sep 15 13 16:30 ]:
> Quoting Timo Weingärtner (2013-09-15 15:39:11)
> > pandoc only Recommends: pandoc-data, so packages Build-Depending on 
> > pandoc for e.g. manpage generation will FTBFS.
> > 
> > Please change the Recommends: into a Depends:
> 
> Pandoc is usable without those datafiles, for some special uses.
> 
> I believe the proper thing to do is for such packages to build-depend 
> also on pandoc-data.

For what it's worth (from a non Debian insider), I think pandoc should depend
on pandoc-data.

Without pandoc-data, many invocations of pandoc will fail -- including
any use of the --standalone (-s) option, and any attempt to produce a
docx, epub, or odt.