3.6: RST "Reference not found", used to work in 3.5 #10484
Description
One form of .rst link that worked in 3.5 is no longer working in 3.6.
In foo.rst, "pull 234" isn't found as a reference:
- One issue fixed: `issue 123`_.
- One change merged: `Big change <pull 234_>`_.
- Improved the `home page <https://example.com/homepage>`_.
- One more `small change`__.
.. _issue 123: https://github.com/joe/project/issues/123
.. _pull 234: https://github.com/joe/project/pull/234
__ https://github.com/joe/project/issues/999
With 3.5:
% /dwn/pandoc-3.5-arm64/bin/pandoc -frst -tmarkdown_strict foo.rst
- One issue fixed: [issue
123](https://github.com/joe/project/issues/123).
- One change merged: [Big
change](https://github.com/joe/project/pull/234).
- Improved the [home page](https://example.com/homepage).
- One more [small change](https://github.com/joe/project/issues/999).
With 3.6:
% /dwn/pandoc-3.6-arm64/bin/pandoc -frst -tmarkdown_strict foo.rst
[WARNING] Reference not found for 'pull 234' at foo.rst_chunk line 1 column 45
- One issue fixed: [issue
123](https://github.com/joe/project/issues/123).
- One change merged: [Big change]().
- Improved the [home page](https://example.com/homepage).
- One more [small change](https://github.com/joe/project/issues/999).