Re: [Groff] Why is it...

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:23:38PM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> As the author of the comments that caused so much umbrage to Colin I 
> should like to reply (and this will be my last post regarding this 
> thread).

Puzzlement rather than umbrage.

> You are correct. My comments were intended to be sarcastic (an emotion 
> which I agree is unworthy) and were caused by my recent frustration 
> with some *ubuntu packages.
> 
> I offer only the following:
> 1. Which is the latest version of groff in Debian/*ubuntu?

That's a well-documented damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don't which has
nothing to do with how much we care about groff.

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196762

Fortunately Brian expressed an intent to work on the remaining pieces
recently.

> 2. In Kubuntu 7.04 ImageMagick's convert utility did not work in 
> accordance with its man page. In 7.10 the utility does not work at all, 
> but this is compensated for, to some extent, by the man page which now 
> doesn't work either. [Try to crop and then resize an image.]

This is just another instance of "software has bugs". :-) Please file
them.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden