Hmm, I made a rather important and regrettable thinko in my list of proposed sources of action. Let me fix it.
At 2020-10-31T14:18:25+1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > No release has been made and several courses of action are possible. > > 1. Advise distributors and direct consumers of groff releases to apply > the remappings in their site man.local (and mdoc.local[2]) files) > if they don't want to see the buggy man pages and (presumably) > participate in an effort to get them fixed. > 2. Restore the remappings, but in our tmac/man.local. Distributors and > direct consumers will have to perform a merge with their existing > files. > 3. Restore the remappings to tmac/an-old.tmac, but make them > conditional on a register that defaults off. > 4. Restore the remappings to tmac/an-old.tmac, but make them > conditional on a register that defaults on. > 5. Revert the change[3] entirely. > 6. Revert the change an un-fix the misuses of ` and ' in code specimens > that I've been repairing for the past few years. > > I posit (6) not because I think anyone is willing to admit to holding > the position, but to establish an endpoint for the conservative > continuum. By symmetry I suppose there is a Molotov-hurling radical > position (0), which is to make a parallel change in tmac/doc.tmac-u and > say nothing about it in any form of release notes. This is not my > position but I think Ingo feared that it was. He's accustomed to being > alarmed by me. :D > > I'd be happy with any of (1) through (4), with a mild grumbling > crankiness increasing with the integers. My biggest problem with (3) > and (4) is thinking of a good register name (this is groff, so we need > not limit ourselves to two characters). I think any of the first > four avenues merits some sort of mention in NEWS. > > What do you think? [...] > [2] But I haven't removed the remappings from mdoc yet, as Ingo noted. > [3] 697e6db7fcacd403f5dde682002d02caa52e48df > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2020-10/msg00087.html Regards, Branden
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