Re: vox clamantis in deserto

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 02:25:05PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> When I picked up a copy of 1.23.0 barely a week after its release, I found
> (and reported) that [groff -ms -p] had a fatal auto-immune disease, in
> which -ms diagnosed customary pic output as invalid. Nearly a year later,
> our departmental computer center just caught the disease from Ubuntu. If
> complaints of unusability have not been piling up in the interim, it seems
> that users like me, with gobs of -ms -p documents, are a relict endangerd
> species.

I think this is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64438, right?  If experts
advise that this patch is safe to cherry-pick in isolation (I know
neither -ms nor pic well), then I'd be happy to upload it to Debian, and
that would at least trickle into future Ubuntu releases even if there
doesn't happen to be a proper groff release in the interim.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]