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Re: [Groff] Why is it...
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [Groff] Why is it... |
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Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:18:10 +0000 |
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:23:38PM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> As the author of the comments that caused so much umbrage to Colin I
> should like to reply (and this will be my last post regarding this
> thread).
Puzzlement rather than umbrage.
> You are correct. My comments were intended to be sarcastic (an emotion
> which I agree is unworthy) and were caused by my recent frustration
> with some *ubuntu packages.
>
> I offer only the following:
> 1. Which is the latest version of groff in Debian/*ubuntu?
That's a well-documented damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don't which has
nothing to do with how much we care about groff.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196762
Fortunately Brian expressed an intent to work on the remaining pieces
recently.
> 2. In Kubuntu 7.04 ImageMagick's convert utility did not work in
> accordance with its man page. In 7.10 the utility does not work at all,
> but this is compensated for, to some extent, by the man page which now
> doesn't work either. [Try to crop and then resize an image.]
This is just another instance of "software has bugs". :-) Please file
them.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson address@hidden