On Wed, Jul 03, 2024 at 02:25:05PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > When I picked up a copy of 1.23.0 barely a week after its release, I found > (and reported) that [groff -ms -p] had a fatal auto-immune disease, in > which -ms diagnosed customary pic output as invalid. Nearly a year later, > our departmental computer center just caught the disease from Ubuntu. If > complaints of unusability have not been piling up in the interim, it seems > that users like me, with gobs of -ms -p documents, are a relict endangerd > species.
I think this is https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64438, right? If experts advise that this patch is safe to cherry-pick in isolation (I know neither -ms nor pic well), then I'd be happy to upload it to Debian, and that would at least trickle into future Ubuntu releases even if there doesn't happen to be a proper groff release in the interim. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
