Follow-up Comment #10, bug #60927 (group groff):

Hi Keith,

At 2025-08-24T16:10:04-0400, Keith Marshall wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #9, bug #60927 (group groff):
>
> [comment #6 comment #6:]
>> pdfmark is no longer distributed with groff.
> Yes, and thus closing (on this tracker) is appropriate; however...
>> Closing as invalid.
> ...classification as "invalid" seems kind of harsh.

No harshness intended; the definition of "Invalid" status in _groff_'s
ticket tracker on Savannah is "The issue is inapplicable, erroneous, or
infeasible; see comments."

(Here, the term "inapplicable", er, applies.)

Frustratingly, I don't know that anyone but the admins of said ticket
tracker have any way to view that definition--and then only by
attempting to edit it.  I've raised an issue with Savane/Savannah's own
developers regarding this lacuna.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?111303

I've annotated several _groff_ ticket summaries with '[not our problem]'
over the years, but one infer harshness from that, too.[1]

> After all, this ticket was certainly valid, at the time when Kurt
> originally submitted it, and development _is_ ongoing, at
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/groff-pdfmark/; perhaps Kurt, (or
> any other interested party), could be invited to review the state of
> the documentation, as it can currently be found there, and open a new
> ticket, on the associated bug tracker, if any further improvements are
> deemed to be necessary?

I can't speak for Kurt, but I'm not inclined to discourage anyone from
evaluating the groff-pdfmark software, nor from supplying useful
hyperlinks to its repository, ticket tracker, et al., in comments to
this (or any other relevant) _groff_ ticket.

Regards,
Branden

[1] Savannah URLs can be brutally long.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?go_report=Apply&group=groff&func=&set=custom&msort=0&report_id=225&advsrch=0&bug_id=&submitted_by=0&category_id=0&severity=0&bug_group_id=0&resolution_id=0&assigned_to=0&status_id=0&plan_release_id=0&summary=not+our+problem&history_search=0&history_field=0&history_event=modified&history_date_dayfd=24&history_date_monthfd=8&history_date_yearfd=2025&max_rows=50&spamscore=5&boxoptionwanted=1#options



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