Bug#845123: please upload pandoc 1.18 to debian unstable and testing at the earliest , before debian stretch is frozen.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Zax,

Quoting Zaxebo Yaxebo (2016-11-20 16:07:21)
> pandoc 1.18 has been released on 27 Oct 2016 with very useful 
> improvements. Reference http://pandoc.org/releases.html
> 
> debian contains the pandoc version 1.17.2 (reference 
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/pandoc ), which was released on 
> 17 July 2016
> 
>   Now, as per https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch , the next debian
> stable (debian stretch final) will have following schedule
>        -  2016-11-05: Transition freeze (general freeze of transitions)
>        - 2017-01-05: "Soft" freeze (no new packages, no re-entry, normal
> migrations)
> 
> 
> ==>> My Request: Hence, I humbly request you to kindly urgently upload 
> the version 1.18 of pandoc at the earliest to "Debian unstable and 
> testing", so that it can be included for Debian stretch stable. So 
> that those of us, who will stay in debian stable, will get atleast 
> version 1.18 till next few years, and not the older version.

Thanks for reporting as a bugreport.

As I also mentioned in our previous brief email exchange, these 
underlying changes are needed before Pandoc can be upgraded:

  * haskell-pandoc-types updated to 1.17
  * haskell-doctemplates packaged.

None of us in the Haskell team has packaged above for experimental yet.

Therefore - even assuming the release team would grant an exception for 
the library freeze (e.g. by the argument that Haskell is compiled mostly 
in lockstep and is largely an ecosystem of its own), I fear that it is 
too late now to get the whole stack ready for the soft freeze.

But if someone is willing to try, then please do ping me (through this 
bugreport) when above build-dependencies are available to build against 
- or alternatively help provide patches to work with the packages 
currently in unstable.


> i had informed earlier this on email to 
> pkg-haskell-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org, and as sean whitton 
> had said that , "if this does not happen within one month , then check 
> back."
>
> Hence, i am humbly just formally raising it as 'bug report' with 
> severity 'wishlist' almost after a month, 'as per suggestion of Jonas 
> Smedegaard' too to better track this.

For the record: You need not hesitate to file bugreports - they are 
useful as soon as possible.  Bugreports are easy to close if wrong, so 
no need for you to be super confident on the issue you are reporting.

Kind regards, and thanks again for reporting this issue,


 - Jonas

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