[bug #64772] [hdtbl] consider deprecating

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #64772 (project groff): Some history: The author of the HDtbl macros, Joachim Walsdorff, presented them to the email list in http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2005-12/msg3.html (at a now-defunct URL). The package was first bundled with groff in groff 1.20 (announced at h

[bug #64772] [hdtbl] consider deprecating

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #64772 (project groff): [comment #5 comment #5:] > which implies his previously quoted characterization of the package as "buggy as hell" is speculative based on code inspection, rather than empirical based on testing. Note that code review and black-box testing are bot

[bug #64798] [troff] "warning" with or without a colon in a diagnostic message?

URL: Summary: [troff] "warning" with or without a colon in a diagnostic message? Group: GNU roff Submitter: bjarniig Submitted: Thu 19 Oct 2023 10:29:09 PM UTC Category: Core

[bug #64772] [hdtbl] consider deprecating

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #64772 (project groff): > I think calling code review "speculative" in this context - as > if systematic testing were somehow better - is not helpful. Fair point. I chose that term based more on your wording "I have little doubt that it is full of bugs," which to my re