Re: [PATCH] doc: remove GNU troff workaround

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2023, 18:34 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s22GzW6rFEEbNo8Bx3oKhf6occ6+Y8hP+vcp8bid-kqWw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230321181702.GI3119834@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 12:17 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> I suspect they were not using Git back then, and these commits were
> later imported, which may have caused some of our confusion (searching
> for docbook 1.76 shows releases on SourceForge, which implies a non-Git
> VCS).

They were using Subversion: https://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/code/HEAD/tree/

> The announcement of 1.76.0 in 2010 mentions a fix for the apostrophe
> issue:
>
>   https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201009/msg00023.html

The tarball contains the fix: https://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl/1.76.0/

So yeah, it was fixed back in 2010.

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Felipe Contreras