Re: [Groff] Request for a new release of groff

[Matias A. Fonzo]

Hello Bertrand,
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:20:53 +0100
Bertrand Garrigues <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13 2017 at 10:40:57 AM, "Matias A. Fonzo"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Dear maintainers,
> >
> > Can you provide a fresh release of GNU groff, latest version is
> > 1.22.3 (04-Nov-2014), there *a lot* of changes and bug fixes since
> > then...
> 
> I've discussed with Werner and I will prepare a new release.

Thank you.
 
> First we can define a 'commit window' of about a month to let
> contributors commit changes or propose patch they think essential for
> this release.
> 
> Then I'll prepare a pre-release; of course people willing to help to
> test on various platforms are welcome.

Sounds good, I'm testing groff for the next version of Dragora[1][2]
using the musl libc[3], sometimes I get errors from the build system,
and I think is because is due to the old version of gnulib.

Links:

[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
[2] http://dragora.org
[3] http://www.musl-libc.org/

> Regards,
Matias

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