-=| Bernd Zeimetz, Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 01:09:04PM +0100 |=- > as we have three packages now which provide /usr/bin/markdown it > could make > sense to use alternatives here, although I didn't check if the three > implementations are compatible enough. At least this would be a better > solution > than what the perl module does now - conflicting against the markdown package. > Probably people want to be able to use both versions? > > Any opinions on that?
Nt really an oppinion, rather just some data: The contents of 'markdown' and 'libtext-markdown-perl' look very similar: markdown (http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/markdown/filelist) -------- /usr/bin/markdown /usr/share/doc/markdown/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/markdown/copyright /usr/share/man/man1/markdown.1.gz /usr/share/man/man3/Markdown.3.gz /usr/share/perl5/Text/Markdown.pm libtext-markdown-perl (http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libtext-markdown-perl/filelist) --------------------- /usr/bin/markdown /usr/share/doc/libtext-markdown-perl/NEWS.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtext-markdown-perl/Todo /usr/share/doc/libtext-markdown-perl/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtext-markdown-perl/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libtext-markdown-perl/copyright /usr/share/man/man1/markdown.1.gz /usr/share/man/man3/Text::Markdown.3pm.gz /usr/share/perl5/Text/Markdown.pm 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).
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