At 2023-09-25T06:08:18-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 9/25/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If my reading of groff release history is correct,[1] groff 1.19 > > came out in February 2004 > > The release of groff 1.19 was announced in Apr 2003 > (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2003-04/msg00161.html), and 1.19.1 in > May 2004 (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2004-05/msg00168.html), though > none of that really moves the needle on the point you were making.
Thanks, Dave. I was sloppy and used the date stamps on files in FSF's 'ftp.gnu.org' site, and made of myself an unreliable authority. Post groff-1.23.0, I updated groff's historical change log files to record release date information,[1] based on archives of the groff and info-gnu mailing lists where possible, and falling back to the dates on the FTP site only when necessary. As we just saw, those dates are not reliably preserved; the site is susceptible to damage, repair, and reorganization and so the files' date stamps are not necessarily stable. I should have used my own resource, and didn't. Just goes to show--if one starts down the path of narcissism, best follow it to the end. ;-) Regards, Branden [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/
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