Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> writes: > > List of supported converters from upstream README.md: markdown | > libtext-multimarkdown-perl | pandoc > > Also available in Debian: discount | python3-markdown > > Also from the README > `markdown-command` - the command used to run Markdown (default: > `markdown`) > > Given that markdown-mode is configured upstream to use "bin:markdown", > it seems more reasonable (and easy!) to just Recommends markdown, and > then add a list of alternatives to Suggests. This way it works out of > the box, and the user can consult Suggests when interpreting the > upstream README.md.
I don't usually think about Suggests as alternatives to Recommends, but rather things less commonly useful, but still enabling additional functionality. markdown, libtext-markdown-perl and discount provide /usr/bin/markdown. You could test how well those work ootb, and recommend them as alternatives if it seems ok. There are also conflicts between several of those, which looks odd to me, but I'll investigate that seperately. d
