Re: Pandoc 2.12

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi Daniel!

My apologies for missing your mail...

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:08 PM Daniel Moerner <dmoerner(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I was interested in checking out the new citeproc library in recent
>  releases of pandoc, and so I did some legwork to build Pandoc 2.12 on
>  rawhide. Packages are available on copr
>  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dmoerner/pandoc-2.12/ 

Thanks for this - and see people are using it.

>  - ghc-hslua: Update to 1.3.0.1, add BuildRequires on
> ghc-semigroups-prof.
>  The hslua.cabal file seems to have a typo resulting from a bad copy-paste,
>  which also needs to be fixed with sed.
>  
Dunno if I have seen the typo - would be good to open a PR upstream if it
isn't already fixed (note semigroups is basically deprecated now).

>  - ghc-pandoc-types: Updated to 1.22. I split this out into its own
> package
>  rather than as a subpackage with pandoc, because I was having trouble with
>  ghc-texmath.
>  - ghc-citeproc: New package, 0.3.0.8. This can be built with an
>  executable, although I didn't build it with the executable.
>  
+1

>  - pandoc: Update to 2.12. Update sub-packages: hslua-module-system
> to
>  0.2.1, jira-wiki-markup to 1.3.3, and add new sub-packages: commonmark,
>  commonmark-extensions, commonmark-pandoc, hslua-module-path. I got a bit
>  lazy here, especially commonmark probably deserves its own package.
>  
Yes good points

I wanted to share this because it should make its way into Fedora proper.
>  I'm a member of the Packagers Group; I don't have prior
> experience with
>  Haskell packaging, but the macros are impressive and well-organized. I'm
>  happy to help in any way I can.
>  
Great


>  One question: I am unclear on the subpackages structure: It makes
> sense
>  for the -core packages, but what about in something like pandoc? I imagine
>  it's about  accommodating fast-moving changes in dependencies without
>  always having to go through fedora-review?
>  
That's correct - lately thanks to one of the big Fedora Package Reviewers
our throughput has improved quite a bit, but it is still a hurdle getting
new libraries added, and often updating happens in the last minute before
the release... like right now in fact.

So the biggest help currently would actually be with unbundling these
subpackages.
If you would like to get involved I would suggest starting that with pandoc.

I am actually almost done with updating all the Haskell packages to
Stackage LTS 18 versions: pity I only saw your mail now, sorry.
But once that is done this month (should get pushed this week), your
packaging contributions would be very welcome.

Jens