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bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#59631: 29.0.50; [PATCH] New check-man target to check man pages for errors |
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Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:50:05 -0500 |
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> > The version of man used is man-db, which AFAIK is used by all major
> > GNU/Linux distributions.
> Exactly. So anyone who doesn't have man-db or isn't on GNU/Linux is toast.
Saying a user "is toast" means that the user is dead. Even if that is
taken as a metaphor, it is a bit exaggeration.
A feature limited to GNU-Like systems is not a horrible thing. Our
policy is that support for non-GNU-like systems is at best a secondary
goal -- something users can implement if they wish, but we don't
consider the lack of that support as a problem.
It's fine to make this call Groff directly, if it has no major
drawbacks. But please don't imply that the absence of that support
would be horrible.
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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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