On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 05:33:42PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Debian FTP Masters dixit: > > > - Add lowdown as an alternative Markdown translator to be used instead > > of > > pandoc, to ease bootstrappability for new ports. (Closes: #956041) > > Unfortunately not: > > | Dependency installability problem for [145]libmaxminddb on x32: > | > | libmaxminddb build-depends on: > | - [146]pandoc:x32 > > This is because buildds do not use alternative dependencies; > lowdown must be the first (or only) alternative. (This is > also better because then the result will not depend on the > architecture.)
I didn't make lowdown the default, because there is an outstanding bug specifically affecting libmaxminddb, for which I'm waiting for a new lowdown release to fix. It will become the default eventually, but I wanted to offer it as an alternative among a few other changes, and do the swap as a "small targeted fix" when the lowdown issue is fixed, which may or may not be after the Feb 12th freeze. I thought that in the meantime (or also in case we don't make the freeze) it would help you with manual builds for bootstrapping. It sounded like this was something you did manually by patching the package before, so I felt this would be better than nothing. Also, note that there is also support for the "nodoc" option & profile now, which was also previously requested by Helmut in this bug; hope this potentially helps in the meantime as well. Faidon
