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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
