Hi Alex, At 2023-04-23T16:17:06+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I got some errors from mdoc(7), which were probably due to the > LANDMINE > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/etc/groff/tmac/checkstyle.tmac>. > Why is that file problematic with mdoc(7)?
I can't tell you; I get "Path not found" from that URL. > Anyway, I thought that I could just remove it, since it's easier to > check with grep(1) if there's anything printed on stderr. I should > have thought of that before. > > You may ask why am I using mdoc(7). No. It's a free country. ;-) > I was just making sure that the Linux man-pages' build system works > with mdoc(7) pages. This is a good idea and I predict Ingo will not object. :) > So now it's useful for testing arbitrary manual pages from other > projects by just wiping man*/ and copying the pages from other > projects into the repo. Or even more interestingly, one can simply > copy the makefiles to /usr/share/man/ and go wild. debbugs might see > a sudden burst of issues regarding man pages :-}. Uh-oh; I fear I might get some of the blame. I'll have to lobby Congress for immunity from liability for misuse of the high-capacity ammunition clips I sell to people who do mass bug filings against man pages... Regards, Branden
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