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

[Zaxebo Yaxebo]

Dear concerned,
   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)

==>> *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 before 5-Nov-2016 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.


regards
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