> Some distributors have overridden this upstream default. As far as I > know, Debian was the first to do so; Ubuntu inherited it (or perhaps the > other way around, as the same person has long maintained the groff > package for both), and then other distributions cargo-culted it into > their own groff packages. > > This has already stung one distribution, and it came up on this list in > the past few days. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-07/msg00057.html > >> I don't see any corresponding change in >> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/groff. > > I do: > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/groff/-/blob/main/site.tmac
Ah, I see. With this I was able to find more information on the Arch patch and how it came to be: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/adventures-with-man-color/. >> Yes, I think using a terminfo db is a good direction for groff. I >> admittedly don't really grok groff all that well but maybe it would be >> possible for man to change the rendering of man pages by redefining >> some macros like .B and .I? > > It is absolutely possible. One can redefine these macros in the > "man.local" file. The usual caveat applies--if you break it, you get to > keep both pieces. :-O I think I will look into this. Thanks for the detailed response, it helped a lot. Cheers, Ronan
