[bug #58992] [man] kill off the .ll hack

[G. Branden Robinson]

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Summary: [man] kill off the .ll hack
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Sat 22 Aug 2020 03:48:35 AM UTC
Category: Macro - man
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: gbranden
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None

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Details:

A workaround for existing man(1) implementations that came with a feature
introduced in 2002 ceased being necessary sometime after 2005, when
then-current releases of man-db man and Lucifredi man reached even the most
ancient of long-term-support "enterprise Linux" releases.

See attached patch. I'm testing it now.



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Date: Sat 22 Aug 2020 03:48:35 AM UTC Name: kill-off-ll-hack.diff Size: 6KiB
By: gbranden

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=49696>

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[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #58992 (project groff):

I found the skinny on this.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-08/msg00030.html

...and follow-ups.

The problem was already fixed and known to be fixed in the latest version of
Brouwer/Lucifredi man, but the 1.6 release was "too new"!

<deep sigh>

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