[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#772962: pandoc: HTML table conversion fairly broken

[Manfred Stock]

Package: pandoc
Version: 1.12.4.2~dfsg-1+b14
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I recently tried the gitit-wiki from testing to see if HTML table handling will
be better than in the version from Wheezy. However, I quickly noticed an issue
with a simple table that was working on the Wheezy-version of gitit. This
problem can also be reproduced with the 'pandoc' command line tool: Given the
following table in 'input.html':

--8<----------------
<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td>2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>3</td>
      <td>4</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
---------------->8--

Converting with the following command:
  pandoc -f html -t html input.html > output.html

This resulted in the following HTML output:

--8<----------------
<table>
<colgroup>
<col width="50%" />
<col width="50%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">1
2</td>
<td align="left">3
4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
---------------->8--

So the <td>'s inside the rows got merged together, and the 2 rows got combined
into one. The upstream changelog for 1.13 mentions a fix for a bug [2] which
looks like the issue I noticed (it also mentions a fix for a bug [3] which
should fix Debian bug #739448, btw.).

Kind regards
Manfred

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/releases.html
[2] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1341
[3] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1167

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages pandoc depends on:
ii  libc6        2.19-13
ii  libffi6      3.1-2+b2
ii  libgmp10     2:6.0.0+dfsg-6
ii  libicu52     52.1-6
ii  liblua5.1-0  5.1.5-7.1
ii  libpcre3     2:8.35-3.3
ii  libyaml-0-2  0.1.6-3
ii  pandoc-data  1.12.4.2~dfsg-1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

pandoc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pandoc suggests:
pn  etoolbox                   <none>
pn  pandoc-citeproc            <none>
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2014.20141024-2
pn  texlive-luatex             <none>
pn  texlive-xetex              <none>

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