On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 05:13:14PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I've prepared a GNU Savannah query for all resolved tickets of Important > severity whose fixes are expected in groff 1.24.[7] Some are fixes for > regressions. Doug's message about "groff -ms -p" not working is one. > > If a distributor were looking for patches to backport, I'd start there.
I cherry-picked a couple of what seemed to me to be the most urgent patches and uploaded them to Debian as 1.23.0-5. This includes a fix for the problem Doug reported. What are the plans for a 1.24 release? In general I think it's bad to drift into a habit of allowing too much time and too many commits to pass between releases; it makes it more difficult to work out what went wrong when users report regressions, and it invites a "just one more fix" mindset which tends to be never-ending until the complaints pile up high enough. Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
