+++ Joachim Breitner [Feb 27 10 18:53 ]: > Hi Jonas, > > Am Montag, den 22.02.2010, 12:43 -0800 schrieb John MacFarlane: > > +++ Joachim Breitner [Feb 22 10 21:21 ]: > > > > Template Haskell is a standard language feature. My worry, though, > > > > was that if we did not support all architectures on which pandoc > > > > 0.46 built, pandoc would never migrate from unstable to testing. > > > > Am I wrong about this? > > > > > > If pandoc can not be built on some arches, then the release team will > > > probably ok the removal of the pandoc package on the broken arches, > > > allowing the transition. But you could retry building pandoc with the > > > new ghc6 compiler, maybe it works now. > > > > Note: the next release of pandoc (1.5) will not depend on Template > > Haskell. I plan to release this in the next month or two. > > I usually like to avoid having to wait for new upstream versions to get > rid of a issue. Would it be possible that you make sure the pandoc > package builds successfully with ghc6-6.12 and the updated libraries, at > least on the arches with Template Haskell support?
Joachim and Jonas: Although pandoc 1.3, the latest packaged for debian, may build with ghc6-6.12, the resulting executable won't handle UTF-8 correctly, because of the double-encoding problem one gets when using both System.IO.UTF8 and GHC6.12. (I posted about this problem earlier to debian-haskell, since it may affect a few other packages as well. I also wrote to the author of utf8-string with some suggestions about how to solve the problem, but as far as I know, no action has been taken.) I used CPP to work around this problem in pandoc 1.4, the latest released version. Since there are a couple other problems with that release, I asked Jonas to hold off packaging until 1.5 was ready. I don't want to hold things up too much, so I could expedite work on 1.5 and try to release it in a week or so, so packaging could proceed. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
