[bug #62478] add more documentation of test suite usage

[Dave]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #62478 (project groff):

[comment #5 comment #5:]
> It's common--though not as common as it should be--for software
> projects to be distributed with an integrated test suite.  In
> my opinion this is pretty elementary knowledge in software
> engineering.  It's beyond the scope of this document to spin
> people up on such fundamentals; if they lack this background,
> they either shouldn't be building groff from source code or
> should be prepared to do some learning from additional sources.

All good points.

> What would you suggest?

In light of the foregoing, I don't think anything additional needs to be done
to address this.  It was mostly an off-the-cuff reaction to the "I have
asserted many times in discussions with you" line in comment #2, which made me
wonder if maybe this needed to be communicated somewhere.


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