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Re: Regressions in UTP document (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: Re: Regressions in UTP document (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 05:54:26 -0500

At 2024-10-04T04:09:12-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> My hypothesis is that I wrote incorrect generated *roff in
> src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp.  I know where to look, and thanks to this
> information I have a pretty good idea how to write a regression test for
> this problem so that this bug, like line numbering, stays dead once you
> kill it, until the user directs its resurrection.
> 
> I'll probably end up filing a Savannah ticket for this (it _is_
> observable in a release), and marking its severity Important as a
> regression, so that distributors are nudged to cherry-pick it.  (Though
> as far as I know, only Colin Watson of Debian/Ubuntu actually bothers.)

Filed as Savannah #66290.  Regression test added.  Fixed.  Pushed.

Regards,
Branden

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