Pandoc

[Gelsenbury]

I noticed that Mageia doesn't seem to have a package for Pandoc. I became aware of it only because a work colleague suggested using it more widely across the department, but it seems to be a powerful tool with lots of potential uses for everyone. Is there a chance of having it packaged for Mageia?

[ozky]

You need to create new package request in bugzilla to get it to Mageia.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_repor ... ge_request

[linuxbrad]

Hi,

I thought I would follow up on this thread. I had a look in Mageia Bugzilla and found https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17321 (Bug 17321). It looks like it hasn't been updated in a real way since 2022, though there is one comment in 2024.

Does anyone know if anything is planned to add pandoc to an upcoming Mageia distro version? Are you still looking for a packager volunteer?

Thanks,
Brad

[doktor5000]

Hi there, the problem is the required haskell/ghc stack which needs to be bootstrapped and maintained.
See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26041

We had ghc before and it has been obsoleted as noone maintained it.

[linuxbrad]

Hi doktor5000!

I'm not sure what the status of the required haskell/ghc stack. I guess it's still unmaintained? I can't really tell based on the Bug report.

I did find something useful on the Pandoc website: https://pandoc.org/try/. It allows you to use pandoc without installing anything.

I'm mainly interested in converting ODT files to Markdown. I did a bit of hunting and found out that LibreOffice will be supporting Markdown in the near future:

What's Happening: Work is underway to add native Markdown import support to LibreOffice Writer. This development, led in collaboration with a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developer, aims to enable opening and editing of Markdown files (.md) using the MD4C Markdown parser.

According to the article, we should see native Markdown support in LibreOffice Writer in version 26.2, scheduled for next year..

Regards,
Brad