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Review: lowdown 3.0.0-1

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DescriptionSimple markdown translator

Lowdown is a Markdown translator producing HTML5; roff documents (the ms, man, and mdoc macros), LaTeX, gemini (“gemtext”), OpenDocument, and ANSI/UTF8 terminal output.

Beyond traditional Markdown syntax support, lowdown supports the following Markdown features and extensions: * autolinking * fenced code * tables * superscripts (traditional and GFM) * footnotes * disabled inline HTML * “smart typography” * metadata * commonmark (in progress) * definition lists * extended attributes * task lists * admonitions * templating

MaintainerFaidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Changed ByFaidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Sponsorparavoid@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lowdown.git (browse)
Popcon Installs319
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/lowdown
Uploaded4 hours ago

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.changes
Version3.0.0-1
Changed-ByFaidon Liambotis
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionexperimental
DateMon, 16 Mar 2026 12:33:35 +0200
Sourcelowdown
Changelog
lowdown (3.0.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - Drop patch regress-env-lc_all-C, merged upstream.
     - SONAME was bumped due to ABI changes, reflect this at the packaging
       level by renaming the library package to liblowdown3.
   * Refresh the package description with new features and use dpkg 1.19's
     ${source:Synopsis}/${source:Extended-Description} to make it more DRY.
.dsc
Package-Listliblowdown-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
liblowdown3 deb libs optional arch=any
lowdown deb text optional arch=any
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: lowdown
Source: https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/

Files: *
Copyright: 2008 Natacha Porté
           2011 Vicent Martí
           2014 Xavier Mendez, Devin Torres and the Hoedown authors
           2016-2026 Kristaps Dzonsons
License: ISC

Files: man/lowdown.5
Copyright: 2017 Christina Sophonpanich <huck@divelog.blue>
           2017-2021 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
License: ISC

Files: libdiff.c libdiff.h
Copyright: 2013 Tatsuhiko Kubo <cubicdaiya@gmail.com>
           2018 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
License: Expat

Files: configure
Copyright: 2014, 2015, 2016 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
           2017, 2018 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
License: ISC

Files: compats.c
Copyright: 1990, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California
           1995 International Business Machines, Inc.
           1996 David Mazieres <dm@uun.org>
           1996 Internet Software Consortium
           1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
           1997 Niels Provos <provos@umich.edu>
           1998, 2000-2002, 2007, 2010 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
           2000-2001 Aaron D. Gifford
           2001-2003 Ian F. Darwin
           2004, 2005 Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip com au).
           2004 Ted Unangst and Todd Miller
           2005 Pascal Gloor <pascal.gloor@spale.com>
           2008, 2017 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
           2008, 2010 Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org>
           2013 Markus Friedl <markus@openbsd.org>
           2014 Google Inc.
           2014 Ted Unangst <tedu@openbsd.org>
           2014 Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
           2015 Sudhi Herle   <sudhi@herle.net>
           2016 Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marriott@gmail.com>
           2017 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
           2020 Stephen Gregoratto <dev@sgregoratto.me>
License: ISC and BSD-3-clause
Comment:
 The file is an amalgamation of multiple files, each derived from code in
 other projects and with their own copyright authors and licenses. See the
 oconfigure project for the broken-down version of this file.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2021-2026 Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
License: ISC

License: ISC
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for
 any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the
 above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
 .
 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
 WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
 ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
 WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
 ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

License: Expat
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
 "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
 without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
 distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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 .
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 .
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 ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 SOFTWARE.

License: BSD-3-Clause
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 are met:
 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of contributors
    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
    without specific prior written permission.
 .
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 ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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 FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
 DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
 OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
 HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 SUCH DAMAGE.

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accepted — allocated to mechtilde 1 hour ago, started 1 hour ago, completed 0 hours ago.

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