
abhidg:
Hi all,
pandoc in the [community] repository is by now quite outdated. While there is a haskell-pandoc package in AUR, it cannot be used by people who do not want to install the whole gamut of GHC and the haskell toolchain.
That also means the package will be installed broken -- only the binary part of it will work. The library components will be useless. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19804 it is used by a number of other things too, as you see.
I've prepared a PKGBUILD for pandoc 1.1 which depends only on gmp, but makedepends on ghc, haskell-utf8-string and haskell-zip-archive. Is it OK if I move these to [community]?
Could you attach the PKGBUILD? I'm fairly uncomfortable repackaging pandoc to intentionally remove dependencies that other tools will need. What happens when we move gitit into [community] and it also needs the (full) pandoc? Maybe we can have the pandoc author separate the library and the executable? -- Don