On 28 March 2018 at 03:11, Keith Packard <kei...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Keith Packard <kei...@debian.org> > > * Package name : cmark-gfm > Version : 0.28.3.gfm.12 > Upstream Author : John MacFarlane <j...@berkeley.edu> > * URL : https://ithub.com/github/cmark > * License : BSD, MIT/X > Programming Lang: C > Description : GitHub enhanced version of cmark, the common markdown > parser > > Common Markdown provides a useful standardized language for building formatted > documents. The 'cmark' parser, already in Debian, provides a basic parser > implementing the core Common Markdown standard. People involved in the GitHub > system have forked 'cmark' in a way which leaves the core language unchanged > but extends the system to add table and other additional formatting methods. > > This extended version of Common Markdown is used within the github system for > formatting .md files in project repositories and, as such, is becoming widely > used within that environment. > > I've got preliminary packaging working here: > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/keithp/cmark-gfm.git/ > > I'm packaging this so I can use it to replace asciidoc in the altos package as > asciidoc is being deprecated.
Out of curiosity, how does it compare to https://github.com/MathieuDuponchelle/cmark? I’m stuck with packaging hotdoc precisely because I didn’t want to introduce a fork of cmark into Debian. -- Cheers, Andrej
