URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64279>
Summary: Proposal to rename roff(7) Group: GNU roff Submitter: mkru Submitted: Sat 03 Jun 2023 05:09:41 PM UTC Category: None Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat 03 Jun 2023 05:09:41 PM UTC By: Michał Kruszewski <mkru> In the upcoming release (1.23) roff.7.man contains mainly a history of roff. It is still named roff, and I can see potential name clash in the case of installing groff on BSD systems. For example, FreeBSD already provides man page for roff(7) (it is completely different than the one provided by groff). If the file was renamed to something like roff_history, roff_hist, groff_history or groff_hist, there would be no name conflict. All man pages coming with groff start with groff_ prefix, and there are no conflicts. However, the roff.7.man can potentially create problem on BSD systems. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64279> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/