[bug #64758] accommodate old hyperlinks to groff Texinfo manual

[G. Branden Robinson]

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                 Summary: accommodate old hyperlinks to groff Texinfo manual
                   Group: GNU roff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Fri 06 Oct 2023 10:30:46 PM UTC
                Category: Core
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Fri 06 Oct 2023 10:30:46 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
On the mailing list, Ingo Schwarze noted that some links to nodes of groff's
Texinfo have gone stale since version 1.23.0 was put online, since some nodes
have been renamed.

Texinfo maintainer Gavin Smith pointed out that Texinfo has a feature that
could help keep "stale" node names working.

Produce a list of all node names in 1.22.4's manual that no longer exist in
1.23.0, and add @anchor points for each.  (No need to be robotic about it:
some nodes were stubs with no content in 1.22.4 and for years previous.  It
doesn't seem any worse to feed people an HTTP 404 than a node devoid of
content.)

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-10/msg00016.html

If we do a 1.23 point release, this change might be worth backporting.







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