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Blog post: Adventures with man color

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2021, 17:51 UTC
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Hello,

Work to arrive at one patch (e.g. [1]) is many times non-trivial, even if the patch is.

Part of the work is explained in the commit message, but only a tiny amount.

For a full explanation of the removal of GNU_ROFF I wrote a blog post with much more detail:

https://felipec.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/adventures-with-man-color/
Cheers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210515115653.922902-2-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/
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Felipe Contreras
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  1. Felipe ContrerasJun 5, 2021

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

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