[Package Request] - pandoc

[neilcook]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name.

pandoc

Pandoc is a package that converts between many different markup formats.

Is this an update to existing package or new package request?

New package request

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2? If it is available via external sources such as EPEL, please specify.

It is available in Amazon Linux 2 via EPEL

Any additional information you'd like to include. (use-cases, etc)

For producing documentation, pandoc is invaluable.

[stewartsmith]

I agree that pandoc can be useful. IIRC it did end up having a very large dependency graph that had to be brought in, so it may be trickier than some other packages...

[stewartsmith]

At this point in time, we're not looking at adding Haskell (and thus pandoc) to AL2023.

Note that if anyone in the community wants to build and maintain packages in their own for AL2023, Fedora COPR does support building AL2023 packages and repos, so using that community infrastructure is a possibility.

[neilcook]

Note that this is very disappointing. Pandoc is the de-facto choice for converting between many document formats, and many projects including my own, use pandoc to generate manpages from markdown. There are very few other options out there.

[danie-dejager]

I was able to build pandoc (2.14.0.3) in COPR when using the Fedora 36 repo and building binutils-2.40-14.fc39.src.rpm beforehand as the binutils included with AL2023 does not include ld gold linker.
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/faramirza/al2023_build-dependencies/build/7768736/

[ozbenh]

Why would it require gold ? As far as we know, gold is more or less deprecated and unmaintained, we took it out on purpose

[danie-dejager]

I'm unsure how to change the pandoc src rpm so not need the gold linker. Seems that Fedora is using the gold linker for all their GHC builds as none of them I looked at wanted to build without the gold linker.