From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 59631@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:50:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1p1Er7-0001oV-L1@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83v8mvglk5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:01:30 +0200)
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> > The version of man used is man-db, which AFAIK is used by all major
> > GNU/Linux distributions.
> Exactly. So anyone who doesn't have man-db or isn't on GNU/Linux is toast.
Saying a user "is toast" means that the user is dead. Even if that is
taken as a metaphor, it is a bit exaggeration.
A feature limited to GNU-Like systems is not a horrible thing. Our
policy is that support for non-GNU-like systems is at best a secondary
goal -- something users can implement if they wish, but we don't
consider the lack of that support as a problem.
It's fine to make this call Groff directly, if it has no major
drawbacks. But please don't imply that the absence of that support
would be horrible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-02 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-27 15:23 bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors Stefan Kangas
2022-11-27 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 17:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-27 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-27 22:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-11-28 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-01 15:02 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-01 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-02 22:50 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-12-03 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-03 14:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-12-03 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-09 10:25 ` Stefan Kangas
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