Hi, Am Samstag, den 27.02.2010, 10:35 -0800 schrieb John MacFarlane: > 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.)
Ok, that’s a good point, we don’t want such broken packages :-) > 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. that sounds good. We are not at the point of a transition yet, and pandoc is not the only thing waiting, but I’d like to get the TODO list smaller if possible. I’ll ask again in one or two weeks if I hear nothing :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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