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

[Manuel Guerra]

If Simon proceeds with the package update, he can disregard my changes to
the debian/upstream branch.

Regards,

El lun, 23 de feb. de 2026 17:54, Simon Quigley <simon at tsimonq2.net>
escribió:

> 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.
>>
>>
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