Hi Alex, At 2023-04-22T20:03:29+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I found some spurious warning using 1.23.0-rc3 while linting some mdoc(7) > page: [...] > mdoc warning: .Nx: Unknown NetBSD version '9.0' (#263) > make: *** [share/mk/build/catman.mk:91: .tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set] Error > 1 > make: *** Deleting file '.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set' > > NetBSD 9.0 dates from 2020.
We don't appear to have a volunteer who's willing to diligently keep tmac/mdoc/doc-syms up to date. (Except, annoyingly, a lot of the OS strings are actually in tmac/mdoc/doc-common.) > Considering that new versions will > continue to appear, I don't think it makes much sense to try to have a > comprehensive list of them. I suggest completely dropping the > warning. Its predilection for maintaing gigantic dictionaries of things is one of my least favorite features of mdoc. I can guess why it was stuck in the first place--man page authors can't be trusted to type things correctly and consistently (true), and there will only ever be one source of truth (_Goodfellas_ forced laughter). The world was small and simple and there was only one BSD and everyone with root on a multi-user machine ran -CURRENT and belonged to the BSD sysadmin cabal. What's sustainable today will be sustainable forever because being a BSD admin is the best thing on Earth and nothing will ever change. That world died a long time ago--and from what I understand of CSRG history, ominous signs were written on the wall even as mdoc(7) was being developed--but many partisans still cling to it like grim death. It's a bit late to get any alteration that would address the above into 1.23.0 unless Bertrand re-opens the gates to macro package changes. (And doing that might mean still more RCs and more delay to 1.23.0 final, so might not be worth it.) But I have an idea for mitigating the problem. It involves `soquiet`, /etc, and distributors. Hit me up again after 1.23.0 final drops. Regards, Branden
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