Bug#1062045: Acknowledgement (pandoc: generates documentation with invalid fonts in groff output)

[Loren M. Lang]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 09:16:38AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libghc-pandoc-dev
> Control: force-merge 1053777 -1
> Control: affects 1053777 pandoc
> 
> Hi Loren,
> 
> Quoting Loren M. Lang (2024-01-31 08:35:12)
> > I left the detail description out of the original report. Current
> > version of pandoc will create *roff output during man page generation
> > that refers to invalid fonts C, CI, and possibly others. This will
> > trigger lintian warnings such as the following for packages using pandoc
> > to build their man pages:
> > 
> > groff-message troff:<standard input>:89: warning: cannot select font 'C'
> > 
> > This is a known issue and has been fixed upstream in pandoc 3.1.7 as
> > documented in this issue:
> > 
> > https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9020
> > 
> > Updating pandoc to 3.1.7 or newer should resolve this issue.
> 
> Thanks for the bugreport.
> 
> Most of pandoc functionality is handled by a Haskell library which is
> packaged separately.  This issue is already reported there, but the
> bugreport is not tagged as affecting this package. With this message
> will (if I cast the runes correctly) reassign and merge this bugreport
> with bug#1053777 and mark it as affecting the pandoc package.

Yes, I just discovered this after attempting to update the pandoc debian
repo. I was able to import-orig --uscan the 3.1.7 release and rebuild
the package without any issues, but then couldn't install it to test
because it didn't match the version of pandoc-data I had installed.
Trying to figure out how to best update that, but the DHG_packages repo
is a bit more sophisticated in it's set-up and I'm not yet sure how it
tracks original tarballs. I'll keep digging into this if that's helpful,
but this is certainly turning into a bigger project than it originally
looked like.

> 
> Kind regards,
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
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