Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#2322 closed enhancement (fixed)

Groff 1.20.1

Reported by: willimm Owned by: Matthew Burgess
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.0
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Version update.

I notified Colin Watson (Debian's groff mantainer and the man-db maintaner) about this version, he may make a new Debian fixes patch sometime... When I get that patch, I will upload it here.

Change History (11)

comment:1 by Marty Jack, 16 years ago

I just started investigating how easy it would be to disable, but this appears to have grown a non-optional build dependency on some things from netpbm.

/bin/sh: xpmtoppm: command not found /bin/sh: pnmdepth: command not found /bin/sh: line 1: pnmtops: command not found

That wouldn't be the best outcome in Chapter 6 where you don't want to introduce that heavy of a dependency.

  • Marty

comment:2 by Marty Jack, 16 years ago

Now 1.20.1. Graceful handling of missing dependency has returned.

comment:3 by alexander@…, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Won't fix. Please create a new ticket when a working patch that adds "ascii8" and "nippon" devices actually appears, or when LFS moves to plain Man (patched in order to drop support for translated messages and manual pages, see http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg12112.html) instead of Man-DB.

comment:4 by alexander@…, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: closedreopened

Reopened, as there is "preconv". So we are waiting not for the "nippon" and "ascii8" patch, but for support of the "preconv" preprocessor in Man-DB.

comment:5 by willimm, 16 years ago

I emailed Colin and Ukai (the other Debian groff maintainer) about preconv, and here is Colin's responce:

I believe it already does as of man-db 2.4.4 (i.e. ages ago). However I

haven't tested this in some time and expect to make a few tweaks in the process of figuring out how to integrate groff 1.20.1 into Debian.

Cheers,

-- Colin Watson [cjwatson@…]

comment:6 by willimm, 16 years ago

With fixed formatting:

 I believe it already does as of man-db 2.4.4 (i.e. ages ago). However I
 haven't tested this in some time and expect to make a few tweaks in the
 process of figuring out how to integrate groff 1.20.1 into Debian.
 
 Cheers,
 
 --
 Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

comment:7 by Matthew Burgess, 16 years ago

Milestone: 7.0
Summary: Groff 1.20Groff 1.20.1
Type: taskenhancement

comment:8 by Matthew Burgess, 16 years ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book@… to Matthew Burgess
Status: reopenednew

comment:9 by Matthew Burgess, 16 years ago

Status: newassigned

comment:10 by Matthew Burgess, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Upgraded in r8790, but with some caveats as outlined in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2009-February/062605.html. Tickets for those issues will be raised shortly, so they don't get forgotten about.

comment:11 by robert@…, 16 years ago

Pls4u2 fix

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --enable-multibyte

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