Bug#1133963: Consider rendering markdown in the html pages

Eric Dorland <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:04:21 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.debbugs
Message-ID	<177629066105.2279017.10816825574119956384.reportbug__19721.4967500017$1776290845$gmane$org@colossus.kuroneko.ca>

Package: debbugs-web
Severity: wishlist

It would make for a more interesting web experience for debbugs to render markdown (perhaps only if the email explicitly sets the mime type to text/markdown). There's already several markdown perl libraries.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.17.9+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debbugs-web depends on:
pn  apache2 | httpd  <none>
pn  libdebbugs-perl  <none>
ii  perl             5.40.1-7+b1

debbugs-web recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debbugs-web suggests:
pn  libapache2-mod-perl2  <none>