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Blog post: Adventures with man color

Subject: Blog post: Adventures with man color

## tl;dr

One message between Jun 5, 2021 and Jun 5, 2021.

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Felipe Contreras· Jun 5, 2021, 17:51 UTC · lore

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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