Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Ingo! On 2023-08-16 18:33, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That perspective is not really helpful for general purpose Linux > distributions: for these, the Linux man-pages project matters a lot, > and that project is not considering the man(7) language as obsolete at > all. That i keep recommending cha

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:55:22PM -0500: > If the page is withdrawn, I expect distributors will need to manage the > man.7 page using Debian's "alternatives" mechanism or similar; if > groff_man.7 is installed, man.7 should be a symlink to it. If > mandoc_m

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-16 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 2023-08-16 05:55, G. Branden Robinson wrote: [...] >> Would you mind sending an updated commit message? > > I did, but you found a fresh problem, this time with part 1, so I guess > we'll be going to v4! :-O Also I'm going to make an attempt to drive > the part 1 change with sed

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[dropped Ingo, Jakub] Hi Alex, At 2023-08-12T17:35:32+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 2023-08-01 16:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-08-01T15:35:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > >> Still I think this should be documented in our commit. Would you > >> please send a paragraph (and

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-12 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, Ingo, On 2023-08-01 16:12, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-08-01T15:35:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> [CC += groff] >> >> Hi Jakub, Branden, >> >> On 2023-08-01 03:31, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>> Hi Jakub, >>> >>> At 2023-08-01T00:16:41+0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * G. B

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-08-01T01:15:02+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Nah, I eyeballed random samples the diff and it looked good. That, > and your extensive tests, make me confident enough. If we screwed > anything, we can fix it. > > The only concern I had some time ago was with code like exit(1),

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-08-01T15:35:10+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > [CC += groff] > > Hi Jakub, Branden, > > On 2023-08-01 03:31, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi Jakub, > > > > At 2023-08-01T00:16:41+0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> * G. Branden Robinson , 2023-07-31 12:52: > >>> Use the man(7) macro `MR`, ne

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-08-01 Thread Alejandro Colomar
[CC += groff] Hi Jakub, Branden, On 2023-08-01 03:31, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Jakub, > > At 2023-08-01T00:16:41+0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * G. Branden Robinson , 2023-07-31 12:52: >>> Use the man(7) macro `MR`, new to groff 1.23.0, >> >> Given that this version of groff was released app

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-07-31 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On 2023-08-01 00:50, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2023-07-31T23:47:50+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>> When the text of all Linux man-pages documents (excluding those >>> containing only `so` requests) is dumped, with adjustment mode 'l' >>> ("-dAD=l") and automatic

Re: [PATCH v2] man*/: ffix (migrate to `MR`)

2023-07-31 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Jakub, Branden, Ingo On 2023-08-01 00:16, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * G. Branden Robinson , 2023-07-31 12:52: >> Use the man(7) macro `MR`, new to groff 1.23.0, > > Given that this version of groff was released approximately yesterday¹, > this is very premature. > > NACK from me. I included that,