ldoc appears to be incorrectly packaged without builtin markdown.lua, installing lua-markdown doesn't help

[ellie]

It appears that ldoc appears to be incorrectly packaged without builtin markdown.lua. In the original source repo, ldoc has this in its main source code dir: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevedonovan/LDoc/master/ldoc/markdown.lua However, in /usr/share/lua/5.3/ldoc this file is missing.

When I run ldoc on my project, I get this error and all markdown pages end up broken:

    format: markdown not found, falling back to text

And when I do this, it fixes things:

    cd /usr/share/lua/5.3/ldoc && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stevedonovan/LDoc/master/ldoc/markdown.lua

So the problem really seems to be this missing markdown.lua file. If the point was to make it use lua-markdown instead, I installed that package and that didn't fix anything so that doesn't seem to work. Hence I recommend adding back in the built-in one so this doesn't end up broken.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: lua-ldoc 1.4.6-1 [modified: usr/bin/ldoc]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar 23 13:08:29 2020
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lua-ldoc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2020-03-01 (22 days ago)

[Victor Seva (linuxmaniac)]

You need lua-markdown package. ldoc markdown.lua is not included in the package, yes.