[Python-modules-team] Bug#567378: Bug#567378: Using alternatives for /usr/bin/markdown?

[Ben Finney]

On 08-Feb-2010, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > Reading their copyright files, it seems like libtext-markdown-perl
> > is a fork of John Gruber's markdown, which seems like not much
> > maintained upstream (last release in 2004).
> 
> Is there a reason why markdown should be kept in the archive then?

One possible reason is that there appears to be no specification on
the parsing of Markdown format, other than “what John Gruber's
/usr/bin/markdown does”.

When two non-Gruber implementations differ in their behaviour, how do
we tell what's right?

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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