Andrei, Liam, thanks for the replies!
However, this ceased to exist from one day to another a few months ago. What's the reason for this (and in general, where can I find announcements or discussions for such actions)?
You need to ask project maintainers, but I guess the usual reason is - it takes time and effort to maintain backward compatibility, it complicates packaging so ...
OK, but who are/were the maintainers? About backward compatibility see below.
Pandoc 3.0 was released earlier this year. Specifically, 2023-01-18:
https://pandoc.org/releases.html
Could it have been around then?
Probably, yes. The last version I got from openSUSE's Haskell repository was 2.19.2 (released August 2022).
And what is a proper substitute for it?
Pandoc is alive and well. Releases are on Github:
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
I don't see RPM but I mainly use it on Debian-family distros and macOS. Perhaps you can install the `.deb` with the `alien` command? I've done that on openSUSE in the past.
Thanks. I've had a closer look and now see that this the mentioned link provides a static binary (with a size of a whopping 134MByte!), and it seems to work fine according to my first tests. It doesn't provide all functionality non-static build offers, though. In general it really makes me wonder why there isn't a single openSUSE distribution that has a recent Pandoc version at all, not even Tumbleweed, according to https://software.opensuse.org/package/pandoc – Pandoc 3.0, for example, was released in January 2023, and the newest release is 3.1.3 (from June 2023). In other words, it seems there are more problems than just backward compatibility. Static binaries for everything can't be the solution, can it? Werner