Re: [PATCH] doc: remove GNU troff workaround

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2023, 22:17 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s38Hnhb-FjAYBQtHVRBcW7wDhd6ah3veemGSw+XdeamaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ZBoqpba+z+/lsTZC@pobox.com>

On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 4:07 PM Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jeff King wrote:
> > I could believe that some people are still stuck on 2016-era versions of
> > dependencies, but yeah, I agree we can be a little more cavalier with
> > documentation. Anyway, I think the right date really is 2010, as above.
>
> I tested this on with CentOS 7 ( docbook-style-xsl-1.78.1).
>
> I didn't notice any bogus curly quotes in the output.  So
> even one of the older OS releases we tend to support
> shouldn't be affected by this change.
>
> Happy to see the cruft removed. :)

For the record, you can check that the fix is there by opening any of the manpages:

    .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
    .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
    .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
    .el       .ds Aq '

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Felipe Contreras