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Branden Robinson" To: Ash Holland Cc: Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/man7/man.7: Don't warn if groff_man.7 is not installed Message-ID: <20251209215149.6ah577ddtqabyypi@illithid> References: <03f1e33dd6200c05afaff1f116f5b254cebd45dc.1765314181.git.x-hv2j5m@keysmash.solutions> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="m3vtszz5hy6s36wb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03f1e33dd6200c05afaff1f116f5b254cebd45dc.1765314181.git.x-hv2j5m@keysmash.solutions> --m3vtszz5hy6s36wb Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/man7/man.7: Don't warn if groff_man.7 is not installed MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Ash, At 2025-12-09T21:38:00+0000, Ash Holland wrote: > When I invoke e.g. `man man`, I see a warning: >=20 > /home/ash/.nix-profile/bin/man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7 >=20 > This is observed by others too: >=20 > To avoid this, we can simply ask troff not to emit this message: > I'm the GNU maintainer of groff and the author (instigator?) of the `soquiet` request. Your patch isn't wrong, but I must point out that the `soquiet` request is new to groff 1.23.0 (which isn't that new anymore--it was released in July 2023). > -.so man7/groff_man.7 > +.soquiet man7/groff_man.7 If Alex applies this, it means the page redirection[1] will stop working _where it had been before_ for any systems using groff 1.22.4 or older. If Alex wants to make the Linux man-pages require groff 1.23.0 or later (there's been no subsequent release, but I'm working on it[2]), that's fine with me, but such a decision should be announced so that distributors of man-pages packages can judge whether they need/want to increment the versioning of their package dependencies accordingly. Regards, Branden [1] that's not really what it is, but let's pretend [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65099 --m3vtszz5hy6s36wb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEh3PWHWjjDgcrENwa0Z6cfXEmbc4FAmk4me8ACgkQ0Z6cfXEm bc4ing//bbuvi3Wy3qPKOVpSqv0UnnqQP0aAEIA8yWyPB26MI7ZSYfxdcDAEU3ru WB/YrVr2sXyEjwcKnvehuzfZipLZv9I+/5+RUM/XpukHrw+hCMrM4eKwu67zM3kl XY5P5pY216qhBBopE0bDapaJT0bT+j6Sie4RfN5/oMAUCj8+J8m6xj+XXgjFgg8v vTvxoJ6RtFHLheosQyajwmpE/S5w+hsd13eTffD6D9dYWJag09MH9dQD9TBW8JqC 4qh+ZEDLMFwedoq5BwEjJecxesXN16EwZKRiM7BWpGA5kglfC714Iu5KNkP5Xems 0EyU43dPKONpM4TFYBfuLpgC3JmUFyr0XqHqB2JsirMb8/E63VFMS92AYw9hCPsc 9UbK//+WGE+0XCHWKSARsA17AAB0T4V62EnPjW4BebYNV/xS2zKb4YmB37h1X56I PRLJORJKZhGAxC6XEDauzaBRS+AXmMxHmyKrLhhpMxScSpobF0DGG1zPWsE8m0hA xh+/Xu2HOPeYM8MGbhs1T7WN3lb6kQ4v8F8ZDCzpqZIVTR3rH0bdQaWV5yszqd9O oINtGywxiYRNhpDS03sy1IBaMi5T+ITQZeOQF5c5vKDzn6Nn5a6ITZaHMY/jtNkP VynnzuXE5SV83CrFiTFMBeAVsSPY0hadlTbVfIlnXSUBdmysDOw= =ZqXq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --m3vtszz5hy6s36wb--