Re: [Groff] GNU troff version 1.22.3

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 01:27:37PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Ubuntu's package manager?  http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/groff says
> 14.10's is currently 1.22.2-8 and that they take Debian's package,
> maintained by Colin Watson (who's on this list).  That version is what's
> in Debian's `testing', https://packages.debian.org/jessie/groff
> Debian's `unstable' has 1.22.3-1!  https://packages.debian.org/sid/groff
> Thanks Colin.  :-)
> 
> But I don't think Ubuntu will update the normal groff package until
> 15.04, and that's when Debian's 1.22.3 might arrive there.  Ah, Colin's
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/groff has 1.22.3-1 down for 15.04.
> Whether you can find a PPA containing 1.22.3 that's compatible with
> whatever version you're running, I don't know.

For the record, I advised Grégoire to just download the .debs for 15.04
and install them directly using "dpkg -i"; the package structure is
simple enough that that shouldn't be much of a practical problem.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden