Package: groff-base Version: 1.23.0-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
This isn't about the many other font changes, especially the troff ones (though changing Cm/Fl to CR from CB in troff mode is basically violence against the user, and changing Pa from C to I and Xr from B to nothing is awful) because I'm the only psycho who actually renders PDFs and can patch this, or even the other nroff font changes (Sx I->Dq is weird, especially contrasted with Xr R->I (which I'm not gonna complain too much about but it is odd; you don't need any font because there's a big sexion specifier there); I might even agree with Li R->B); (it would be nice if reversions were provided by default or with an easy opt-in in Debian I've personally been using .\" Comparing groff-base 1.23.0-3 with 1.22.4-10 .\" Based on https://paste.sr.ht/~nabijaczleweli/e897d091aa5b62c284c6c996d90253023b6271f7 .\" .\" 1.23 effectively aliases Sx to Dq. undo this .als Sx doc-generic-macro .ds doc-Sx-usage section_header . .ie n \{ . .\" doc-nroff .ds doc-Li-font \f[R] .\" \f[B] in 1.23 . .ds doc-Sx-font \f[I] .\" dropped in 1.23 . .ds doc-Xr-font \f[R] .\" \f[I] in 1.23 . \} .el \{ . .\" doc-ditroff .ds doc-Sx-font \f[B] .\" dropped in 1.23 . .ds doc-Xr-font \f[C] .\" \f[I] in 1.23 . .ds doc-page-topic-font \f[R] .\" \f[I] in 1.23; used to be called doc-caption-font . .ds doc-Cm-font \f[CB] .\" \f[CR] in 1.23 . .ds doc-Fl-font \f[CB] .\" \f[CR] in 1.23 . .ds doc-Pa-font \f[C] .\" \f[I] in 1.23 . \} since, commit date says, 2023-11-14) this is about the two "obviously-broken" changes. 1: The first invocation of Nm in NAME is broken: it correctly saves the first argument to the string register, but it draws the argument in R instead of B. This is in contrast to every other use of Nm (and, thus, every other reference to the object the Nms refer to). This is baffling and confusing; please revert this (a quick peep at https://sources.debian.org/src/groff/1.23.0-3/tmac/doc.tmac/#L1166 shows that this is an explicit change). This is much harder to correct (I'd say impossible) for a casual user, though I've added this to my mdoc.local (it's not pretty nor is it nice but it does work against 1.23.0-3): .\" Handle '.Nm ...' in "Name" section: use the Nm font! It doesn't anymore in 1.23. .als Nm_old Nm .rm Nm .de Nm .if \\n[doc-in-name-section] \{\ . if "\\*[doc-topic-name]"" \ . ds doc-topic-name "\\$1\" . nr doc-in-name-section 0 .\} .Nm_old \\$@ .. 2: Dt is misrendered but only in nroff mode. Given .Dt A_B_C 9 In troff mode, and in 1.22.4-10, the top left and right corners were "A_B_C(9)". In 1.23.0-3 in nroff they are "\fIA_B_C\fP(9)", which: (a) why would you need this? (b) completely breaks manuals with underscores in the name, because "\fIA_B_C\fP(9)" and "A_B_C(9)" and "\fIA B C\fP(9)" are all drawn identically. I didn't have the time or the energy to root-cause this. Best, наб -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages groff-base depends on: ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3 ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14 ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14 ii libuchardet0 0.0.7-1 groff-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages groff-base suggests: ii groff 1.22.4-10 -- no debconf information
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