Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

2018-02-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 08:39:50PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > The first warning is unrelated to the font installation > > problem, which, IIRC, we established was the result of the > > 'gsfonts-other' package not being installed. Perhaps Colin wou

Re: [groff] modernization, maintanership, separate packages

2018-02-22 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Doug McIlroy wrote: |All these threads are tangled in my mind, so ... | |-a: I use this quite regularly for quick peeks at line and page |breaks without the trouble of writing a file and looking at it |in another window. It is certainly the option I type most--the |rest are buried in shell s

Re: [groff] [Groff] Next release - maintainership

2018-02-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Dave, Dave Kemper wrote on Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:18:40PM -0500: > On 2/21/18, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> You can hardly use *roff without >> macros (well, there are rumours about a few people using their very >> own, personal macro sets, but that's certainly the exception rather >> than the ru

[groff] modernization, maintanership, separate packages

2018-02-22 Thread Doug McIlroy
All these threads are tangled in my mind, so ... -a: I use this quite regularly for quick peeks at line and page breaks without the trouble of writing a file and looking at it in another window. It is certainly the option I type most--the rest are buried in shell scripts. separate maintenance. ma

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

2018-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 08:39:50PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > The first warning is unrelated to the font installation > problem, which, IIRC, we established was the result of the > 'gsfonts-other' package not being installed. Perhaps Colin would > consider making gsfonts-other a dependency fo

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

2018-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:48:56PM +0100, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > I'll add a check on the presence of pkg-config in m4/groff.m4 and update > the doc. But the pkg-config macros themselves already do that ... > It should be documented in INSTALL.extra rather then INSTALL.REPO as > INSTALL.REPO