> imho that is really annoying since some systems which never > updated from 1.19.2 because of licensing reasons and have not yet > moved to mandoc(1) are not capable to display the manual > correctly via man(1) out of the box. > And it is completely unnecessary since it seems Werner has > designed the new behaviour in a way that makes transition > painlessly possible, which i have done in the attached patch.
Please submit this to the bug tracker. Werner