Re: 1.23.0.rc1.2875-9c30-dirty: does not prefer its own same-version subprograms?

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Dave Kemper wrote in
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 |On 9/3/22, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
 |> Letting aside that --with[out]-doc was blindly removed
 |
 |This was not done blindly: Ingo posted a lengthy rationale to this
 |list (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2022-04/msg00009.html), and invited
 |comment from anyone who wanted to retain the option.  No one spoke up
 |in its favor.

Yes i have read that.  You missed to quote

  Letting aside that --with[out]-doc was blindly removed even though
  i do not really think that so much changes to the involved
  documents happened,

But lenghty is the right word.

 |>   #?0|kent:src$ s-roff -v
 ...
 |>   called subprograms:
 |>
 |>   GNU grops (groff) version 1.22.4
 |>   GNU troff (groff) version 1.22.4
 |>
 |> ^ Finds the programs of the Linux distro's groff variant.
 |
 |You seem to have stumbled across an instance of Savannah #62860:
 |http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?62860

Ah yes.  Thanks.  Yes, that seems to be the problem.

I can confirm it is still broken!

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