[DRE-maint] Proposal to update ruby-commonmarker from 0.23.10 to 2.6.3

[Simon Quigley]

Hi Soren, all,

This sounds good to me. I have 2.6.3 staged in Salsa, please let me know if I should upload that or hold off for now.

Thanks for looking into this! Let me know if I can help further.

Thanks,
Simon Quigley
tsimonq2 at debian.org

On February 23, 2026 3:11:27 PM CST, Soren Stoutner <soren at debian.org> wrote:
>Simon and Manuel,
>
>I see that you have both been doing work on ruby-commonmarker.  The current 
>version in Debian is 0.23.10, which is a legacy branch.  The current upstream 
>version is 2.6.3 which involves a lot of breaking changes.
>
>There are two packages in Debian that depend on ruby-commonmarker:  redmine 
>and ruby-jekyll-commonmark.
>
>The current version of redmine requires commonmarker ~> 2.3.0.
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/redmine/-/blob/debian/latest/Gemfile?
>ref_type=heads#L21
>
>There does not appear to be significant differences between commonmarker 2.3.0 
>and 2.6.3, so I think we are probably safe to use the latest upstream.
>
>https://github.com/gjtorikian/commonmarker/releases
>
>Doing so will break ruby-jekyll-commonmark, which depends on commonmarker -> 
>0.23.4.
>
>https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/blob/master/jekyll-commonmark.gemspec#L19
>
>There is an open upstream issue to support commonmarker 2.x, but so far there 
>has been no response.
>
>https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-commonmark/issues/61
>
>ruby-jekyll-commonmark has low popcon installs.
>
>https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ruby-jekyll-commonmark
>
>I try to avoid doing updates that break software.  However, in this case, I 
>propose we update ruby-commonmarker to fix redmine and the three transitions 
>it is blocking.
>
>I have included Daniel, the Uploader of ruby-jekyll-commonmark, to get his 
>feedback.
>
>-- 
>Soren Stoutner
>soren at debian.org
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