please upgrade to Pandoc 3.6.3

[jonassmedegaard]

Pandoc 3.6.3 improves handling of quotation markers and LaTeX multilingual settings, both improving the use with non-english and multilingual documents.

Please consider upgrading to Pandoc 3.6.3, also for the stable v1.6 branch, if not too much hassle.

[mcanouil]

Thank you for suggesting the upgrade to Pandoc 3.6.3 and for highlighting its improvements. We understand the benefits it offers for handling quotation markers and LaTeX multilingual settings.

However, upgrading dependencies like Pandoc across all branches isn't how our versioning and dependency management process works. Quarto upgrades its dependencies once per release to ensure stability and compatibility. Including Pandoc 3.6.3 in future releases will be considered during our next update cycle.

We appreciate your understanding and continued support.

[jonassmedegaard]

Ah, understood. I feel the pain of the Pandoc dependency chain myself in the Debian packaging of that marvellous tool, and just hoped that you somehow had a simpler route to upgrading it.

Are such constraints in pace of upgrading components perhaps documentet somewhere? Perfectly understood if not (I mean, it isn't explicitly documented in Debian either).

[cderv]

Are such constraints in pace of upgrading components perhaps documentet somewhere? Perfectly understood if not (I mean, it isn't explicitly documented in Debian either).

Not in details but we mentioned the policy here.
https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#development-and-maintenance