From 06953a196a200441bfc6e9a9942231b03b23537f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: smcv Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 16:54:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] in progress --- .../discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn b/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn index a5dd0bac0..1d70c926e 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn @@ -22,3 +22,15 @@ Some guesses: - Sufficiently old versions of the Discount library may break when passed unrecognized flags, in which case ikiwiki might want to version-check before passing flags - The version of the Discount library bundled with upstream Text::Markdown::Discount may be extremely old, in which case pkgsrc might want to make it depend instead on an external Discount package + +> This appears to be because `MKD_GITHUBTAGS` and `MKD_LATEX` both have numeric values that +> were previously used for the internal flag `IS_LABEL`, which strips HTML (its value has +> changed a couple of times). +> +> Having thought about this a bit, I realise I can probe for the values of these flags by +> processing HTML that should have different results with the flag set or unset, which +> would be safer than just blindly using them. +> +> Orthogonally, pkgsrc should probably use an up-to-date version of Discount, and +> [we already know that Text::Markdown::Discount needs updating](https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=124188). +> --[[smcv]]