Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 perl On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 03:15:47PM +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > I think a change in groff-base to re-enable the CW font alias might be > reasonable. This affects a number of other packages, not just perl (via > pod2man), for example: > > puck@dirk:~$ man --warnings /usr/share/man/man1/strace.1.gz > /dev/null > troff:<standard input>:88: warning: macro 'IX' not defined > troff:<standard input>:119: warning: cannot select font 'CW' > troff:<standard input>:124: warning: cannot select font 'CW' > ... > > (Lintian excludes the IX macro which is why that is present)
I'll re-enable the CW alias, but I think pod2man should probably be changed as well, since it'll still be generating pages that result in warnings from upstream groff. I'm less sure exactly what the change should be. Using CW does have its advantages despite the non-portability: as I recall, it looks better in troff output. Perhaps the generated document should attempt to use the CW font if it exists, but otherwise suppress warnings and fall back to R? -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
