[bug #54910] much documentation still recommends address@hidden for filing bug reports

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #54910 (project groff):

Yes, your autoconf solution seems like the best fit for the man pages.  I was
unaware of this feature of autoconf.

Being wholly unfamiliar with groff's build process, it's best that I not
attempt to change any autoconf files or Makefiles, lest I break the build.

But I have updated the remaining files you mention and attached a patch (which
also fixes a couple of trivial errors in grammar, punctuation, etc., that I
spotted in the process).  Some specific notes on five of these files:

NEWS

I did not update this file; its one reference to address@hidden is under
the "VERSION 1.17" section, and I'm not sure it makes sense to modify that at
this point.

PROJECTS

Since the context of address@hidden in this file is not reporting bugs,
instead of changing it to point to the bug tracker, I changed the address to
that of the groff discussion list.  (However, I don't know whether this list
is configured to accept email from nonsubscribers, so this may not be a viable
change.)

README, doc/webpage.ms

These files already recommended the bug tracker as the bug-reporting
mechanism; they said using the method in the file BUG-REPORT was an
alternative.  As BUG-REPORT also now points to the bug tracker, I've tweaked
this wording.

doc/groff.texi

The address address@hidden was used only once in this file, not as an
address to report bugs, but as the email address for Werner Lemberg.  I would
take this to mean he doesn't want his actual email address in public
documentation, except that it appears in many other places throughout groff
source code and documentation alike.  So it doesn't seem unreasonable to put
it in this file as well.  I will email him to confirm that this is OK.

Additionally, I modified INSTALL.extra: Like README, this cited the file
BUG-REPORT as an alternative mechanism.  I removed this wording entirely.

(file #45371)
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