Re: groffer from 1.18.1.3 doesn't compile

[Matthew Burgess]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Would you mind taking a look at
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/patches/groff-1.18.1.4-debian_fixes-1.patch
> > (379KB!) to see if there's anything there you could merge upstream?
>
> Will do, thanks.
>
> <rant>
> On the other hand, it quite annoys me that the Debian people (and guys
> from other distributions) don't report such issues back to the groff
> list!  It's not only groff which is affected by this, but other
> packages too.  I'm not sure whether this is ignorance, arrogance, or
> just laziness...
> </rant>

Whilst I fully appreciate your frustration, LFS happens to be guilty of 
not reporting those issues as often as we should.  I can't speak for the 
other LFS editors, of course, but on my side it's largely laziness.  We 
get a bug reported, find a fix, apply it, close the bug, job done.

Recently, a number of folks both within and outside the LFS community 
have complained about the number of patches we apply to stock upstream 
tarballs, so I'm trying to remedy it by pushing them upstream. 
Unfortunately, it's not the most exciting or rewarding of tasks, and 
quite often those reports go into a black hole (obviously not in the 
case of groff!), especially in the case of older software that would 
appear to no longer have a maintainer (hello gzip!).

Regards,

Matt.