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

[Manuel Guerra]

Hi Simon,

Please, do what you need :D

I have no problem, do a merge if this is good for the package.

Regards,

El lun, 23 de feb. de 2026 18:14, Simon Quigley <simon at tsimonq2.net>
escribió:

> Hi Manuel,
>
> We can work together. :)
>
> Your change to use packaged dependencies looks like exactly what we need
> to solve the CI failure. Would you like to merge that on to debian/latest,
> or would you like me to proceed?
>
> Thanks for your work,
> Simon
>
>
> On February 23, 2026 4:07:13 PM CST, Manuel Guerra <
> ar.manuelguerra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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