[bug #59425] [man, ms]: man pages are not compatibility-wrapper aware

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?59425>

                 Summary: [man, ms]: man pages are not compatibility-wrapper
aware
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Sat 07 Nov 2020 06:08:37 AM UTC
                Category: Macro - others
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: Need Info
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Evidently it doesn't confuse many people, or the macro package
compatibility-wrapper feature is little-used (or both), but our man pages for
man and ms are technically wrong because they don't refer to their
implementations with the wrapper prefix.

See Makefile.am:247-277.  Also lines 917-920 for where the actual
substitutions take place.

The mm package already does this correctly, so it should be pretty easy to
ape.

I'm a bit curious why this hasn't been done for mdoc.  Don't the BSDs still
have their own mdoc macro package (upon which ours was originally based but
then heavily groffified), or do they rely exclusively on mandoc/mdocml for
their mdoc rendering needs these days?




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