There is a stale directory in the GNU groff project's website. https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/
This corresponds to the groff 1.22.4 release, which is nearly 5 years old. The directory also shows up in ViewVC. https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/groff/manual/ However it is _not_ present in my CVS checkout. How did you checkout your directory? What did you do in your checkout? I did a fresh checkout, and manual/ is there, as it should be from the looks of it. So it is not stale, might be out-dated, but that is becuase nobody removed it. My memories of CVS are that it didn't handle symlinks well. Does this require administrative intervention? I'm not sure what intervention is needed, manual/ is part of the source tree, nobody (you?) never removed it.
