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Using this package will waste instead of save disk space if:

• You're a haskell developer and need the shared libraries/compilers/etc. anyway.
• You have >10 other statically-linked haskell packages around the same size as Pandoc (in which case you'll get a saving from making them all dynamically linked).

Neither of these scenarios is particularly likely.

Until package is updated to 3.13:

$ diff -u PKGBUILD.{old,new}
--- PKGBUILD.old        2024-04-18 10:00:24.029195906 +0200
+++ PKGBUILD.new        2024-04-18 09:56:11.506353366 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pkgname=pandoc-bin
-pkgver=3.1.12.2
+pkgver=3.1.13
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Pandoc - executable only, without 750MB Haskell depends/makedepends"
 url="https://pandoc.org"
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 source_x86_64=("$pkgname-bin-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${pkgver}/pandoc-${pkgver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz")
 source_aarch64=("$pkgname-bin-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${pkgver}/pandoc-${pkgver}-linux-arm64.tar.gz")

-sha256sums=('f22f18fe008641fd3fccddb040c3747efd57fad669df6ca41f4926421f317bd2')
-sha256sums_x86_64=('40da725277f7617d045fc761b0375b3ba0990c5d03a908c207fed61b78e34986')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('9032b273aec5a1050b2e5f724c8a9dcaf657540c68e44dc477ec9fc38aebc173')
+sha256sums=('e00265e5aa56ecb214d12fd7781e87d77abf101dd8d02e15c4d648ad50a5ef80')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('db556c98cf207d2fddc088d12d2e2f367d9401784d4a3e914b068fa895dcf3f0')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('678c09ac4227c88b491f6e75491e6da871fd08d79b8c0f0ee37b611f01ad3d25')

 package() {
   cd "${srcdir}/pandoc-${pkgver}"

Would you update the package? Or I can help you maintaining this package.

This package is correctly set to conflict with pandoc-cli, but it has a couple of other issues. The conflict with pandoc is currently meaningless since there is no such package, that is the name of a virtual provides and as such is not something one can conflict with. Also this provides pandoc which is okay for transitioning from the old naming, but it should also provides=("pandoc-cli=$pkgver") to correctly operate as a stand in replacement for that package.

Can you add me as a maintainer so I can help with updating this package?

Using this package will waste instead of save disk space if:

• You're a haskell developer and need the shared libraries/compilers/etc. anyway.
• You have >10 other statically-linked haskell packages around the same size as Pandoc (in which case you'll get a saving from making them all dynamically linked).

Neither of these scenarios is particularly likely.

What are the disadvantages of not having the "750MB Haskell depends/makedepends"?

Important new realease 3.1.8, please update build data. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.1.8

Take this and and run makepkg -si - I rev'd it only for amd64

pkgname=pandoc-bin
pkgver=3.1.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Pandoc - executable only, without 750MB Haskell depends/makedepends"
url="https://pandoc.org"
license=("GPL2")
arch=('x86_64')
conflicts=("pandoc" "pandoc-cli")
provides=("pandoc=$pkgver")
optdepends=('texlive-core: for pdf output')

# The binary release doesn't have the datafiles, so we need to yoink those out of the source tarball, too.
source=("$pkgname-source-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz")
source_x86_64=("$pkgname-bin-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/${pkgver}/pandoc-${pkgver}-linux-amd64.tar.gz")

sha256sums=('c0bfd5973e9b335372c7e1a594499f2acc2e30e1035cc2c21bd3dc76904385a5')
sha256sums_x86_64=('c07923a65321b4246658635edce517ae6578abb65396bff914feef37bc48784b')
package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/pandoc-${pkgver}"

  # To avoid having to download over a gigabyte of haskell makedepends (400-ish for ghc, plus 750 in libs), we
  # just yoink the binary from static compiled binary distributed by pandoc:
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pandoc"
  cp -R bin share "${pkgdir}/usr"

  # We're still missing all the datafiles and so on. We get those from the source tarball...
  cp -R data "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pandoc/"
  cp COPYRIGHT MANUAL.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pandoc/"
}

The texlive packages have been reorganized since June 18th and the new texlive-basic package does not contain all tools that texlive-core did.

Therefore I had to install the additional packages texlive-latex, texline-latexrecommended and texlive-fontsrecommended in order to convert Markdown to PDF. I would be nice, if these could be added as optional dependencies.

Another person also mentioned, that the packages texlive-pictures and texlive-latexextra are required as well. But I cannot confirm this.

Last version is 3.1.6.2, see: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.1.6.2

The out-of-date flag by @shmilee doesn't mention the version number.