Add pandoc-bin as a package to create

content/alpine-pkgs.md

@@ -200,6 +200,27 @@ how far I could push it, as well as maybe, sometimes, create actual games.
 Inform is currently proprietary, although its creator says he wants to make it
 open-source.  Until then, it will go on a private repo...
 
+### pandoc-bin
+
+Alpine's maintainers want packages to be compiled from source, particularly
+because they mostly always need to be compiled from source to handle musl or
+be truly lightweight.  Pandoc will no longer be available in the next Alpine
+release (3.15), because the Haskell maintainers do not accept upstream patches
+for musl compatibility and maintaining the `ghc` compiler has been a pain.
+`ghc` is blocking the next release and no packages other than Pandoc and some
+unmaintained or rarely used dependencies are depending on it, so the decision
+was made to remove it entirely.
+
+Pandoc provides on their [GitHub releases](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases)
+some amd64 and arm64 binaries that are statically-linked, meaning they do not
+depend on neither `musl` nor `glibc`.  The binaries are on the heavy side, but
+they seem to run perfectly well on Alpine.
+
+I do not have the knowledge to help with fixing `ghc`, and after a thorough
+review of a large amount of Markdown parsers, only Pandoc fits my requirements.
+To avoid having to rewrite every single of my websites in another Markdown
+dialect or in pure HTML, I will just package pandoc's binary in a private repo.
+
 ### bad ideas
 
 A discussion on IRC led to some ideas for terrible packages that we could put