[dropped Ingo, Jakub] Hi Alex, At 2023-08-12T17:35:32+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 2023-08-01 16:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-08-01T15:35:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > >> Still I think this should be documented in our commit. Would you > >> please send a paragraph (and the position at which you'd place it) > >> with which I can amend the commit? > > > > Yes. That was on oversight on my part; I was scrubbing out all font > > changes (with "-P -cbou") because my concern was with unexpected > > changes to adjustment and hyphenation. The style change for man > > page topics (from bold to italics) was a "known factor" (to me). > > Would you mind sending an updated commit message? I did, but you found a fresh problem, this time with part 1, so I guess we'll be going to v4! :-O Also I'm going to make an attempt to drive the part 1 change with sed as well. Just to see if I can, and to see what happens. > Heh, I noticed some weirdness about it, but it happened to be after a > -rCHECKSTYLE, so it seemed like it could be some improvements that you > had applied upstream to CHECKSTYLE. =3 definitely made sense to that > register. GNU troff(1) does not raise a diagnostic if a register assignment is followed by garbage. That's disappointing. Filed. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64559 > > Please double-check for that before pushing to kernel.org. > > Please send one that I don't need to modify. I don't like modifying > other's stuff, in case I break it. :) Did v3 2/2 show up for you without quoted-printable damage? > >>>> and against man-pages(7) recommendations. > >> > >> Well, we should update those to use MR. > > > > And man(7) too, I guess. What do you think? > > I want to kill that page. Please have a look at it, take anything > good that it has for groff_man{,_style}(7), and ping me when I > should sharpen the scythe. ;) Ok, will do. If the page is withdrawn, I expect distributors will need to manage the man.7 page using Debian's "alternatives" mechanism or similar; if groff_man.7 is installed, man.7 should be a symlink to it. If mandoc_man.7 is installed, likewise. If both are installed, the distributor needs to select a default preference. I expect you will want to emphasize this in the release announcement, when the time comes. This already needs to happen with soelim(1) and roff(7), but it doesn't, exactly; Debian renames mandoc's versions of the former to msoelim(1) and the latter to mandoc_roff(1). Termux simply throws groff's versions away and installs mandoc's versions as soelim(1) and roff(7). I also use Termux. Imagine my surprise when I upgraded to groff 1.23.0 on my tablet and brought up roff(7). I was expecting to see myself in the mirror, and what should greet me but the visage of Ingo Schwarze! Unnerving, no? Regards, Branden
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