On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:02:02AM +0200, Fabio Riga wrote:
> I think the reason behind this flag is the added dependency on
> blaze-markup. A cabal patch is bigger, but the result is the same. I
> will send the pull request with the cabal patch. OK?

I doubt the patches to the cabal files will be bigger than for
PKGBUILD.  It should be enough to do the following change:

  --- pandoc.cabal.orig   2012-07-22 09:16:03.954749773 +0200
  +++ pandoc.cabal        2012-07-22 09:16:34.734945438 +0200
  @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
     Default:       False
   Flag blaze_html_0_5
     Description:   Use blaze-html 0.5 and blaze-markup 0.5
  -  Default:       False
  +  Default:       True

   Library
     -- Note: the following is duplicated in all stanzas.