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diff --git a/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn b/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a5dd0bac0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/discount_stopped_rendering_markdown_links.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# What I did + +Upgraded from 3.20180105 to 3.20180228 (from pkgsrc). +No change to installed Text::Markdown::Discount (0.11nb4 from pkgsrc, using upstream's bundled Discount library). + +# What I expected to happen + +Markdown-style links to continue being rendered as before. + +# What actually happened + +Markdown-style links stopped being links. +Instead, they render the part in square brackets as ordinary text. + +# Proximate cause + +In [f46e429](http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=commitdiff;h=f46e429d96ead32943cb2670d7686df8c77de361), if I comment out the `MKD_GITHUBTAGS` if block, the problem goes away. + +# Further causes and possible solutions + +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 |