On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 01:28:43PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > (Actually, the existence of /usr/share/groff/current seems a bit odd. > Most packages don't have a symbolic link to support multiple installed > versions and users that want multiple versions of a program installed > can use GNU Stow or similar to maintain the symlinks if their package > manager doesn't provide it.)
Really, the weird thing is not so much the existence of the current symlink, as the fact that the directories under $(dataprogramdir) are versioned. The current symlink is an attempt to cope with that so that other bits of software that for some reason need to look at files in tmac/ can do so without having to keep track of the version number; but it's quite possible that it would have been better to abolish the versioned directories. Anyway, groff's build system was more or less completely rewritten between 1.22.3 and 1.22.4 (Bertrand's automake conversion), so that will certainly confound any attempts to compare different distributions if you aren't comparing like version for like. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]