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Inline the definition of the deleted, undocumented macro (identical in both packages) to ease life for refugees who discovered and used it happily as-was. Thanks to Joerg van den Hoff for noting my lack of courtesy.
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[[ maintainer: Send to platform-testers for betas/RCs,
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info-gnu for releases,
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and CC groff and linux-man@vger.kernel.org for both. ]]
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[[ groff x.y.Y release candidate Z, x.y.Y.rcZ, is now available from
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GNU's alpha site. You may download the distribution archive from there.
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https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/groff/ ]]
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[[ We are pleased to announce the availability of groff 1.yy.0. Obtain
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it from the GNU mirror network,
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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz
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or, if the network is for some reason inoperative, directly from GNU.
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https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz ]]
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Ensure the integrity of your download by checking this source code
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archive's cryptographic signature; see "Obtaining groff" below.
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What is groff?
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==============
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groff (GNU roff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text input
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that includes formatting commands to produce output in PostScript,
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PDF, HTML, or DVI formats or for display to a terminal. Formatting
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commands can be low-level typesetting primitives, macros from a
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supplied package, or user-defined macros. All three approaches can be
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combined.
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A reimplementation and extension of the typesetter from AT&T Unix, groff
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is present on most POSIX systems owing to its long association with Unix
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manuals (including man pages). It and its predecessor are notable for
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their production of several best-selling software engineering texts.
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groff is capable of producing typographically sophisticated documents
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while consuming minimal system resources.
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https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
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Changes
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=======
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Since groff 1.23.0 was released on 5 July 2023, MM people have made a
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total of over NNN commits.
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[[ Changes since the most recent release candidate, 1.yy.0.rcZ ... ]]
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[[ maintainer: Insert output of
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"git shortlog --summary 1.22.4..1.23.0" ]]
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[[ Headline features nominated by our development community include: ]]
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For more on these and other feature changes, see "News" below.
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[[ As of this writing, per the GNU Savannah bug tracker, the groff
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project has resolved NNN problems as fixed for the 1.yy.0 release. ]]
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Classifying these issues by type and the component of the project to
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which they apply, we find the following.
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Type Component
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---- ---------
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Build/installation NN Core NN
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Crash/unresponsive NN Driver: grohtml NN
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Documentation NN Driver: gropdf NN
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Feature change NN Driver: grops NN
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Incorrect behavior NN Driver: grotty NN
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Lint NN Driver: others/general NN
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Rendering/cosmetics NN Font: devpdf NN
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Test NN Font: devps NN
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Warning/suspicious behavior NN Font: others/general NN
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General NN
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Macros: man NN
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Macros: mdoc NN
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Macros: me NN
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Macros: mm NN
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Macros: mom NN
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Macros: ms NN
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Macros: others/general NN
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Preprocessor: eqn NN
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Preprocessor: grn NN
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Preprocessor: pic NN
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Preprocessor: preconv NN
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Preprocessor: refer NN
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Preprocessor: tbl NN
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Preprocessor: others/general NN
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Utilities NN
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Another way of capturing the amount of revision is as follows.
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$ git diff --stat 1.23.0 1.yy.0 | tail -n 1
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[[ maintainer: insert output ]]
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Obtaining groff
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===============
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Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*].
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[[ maintainer: insert .tar.gz URL ]]
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[[ maintainer: insert .tar.gz.sig URL ]]
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[[ maintainer: include the following for final release:
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Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth.
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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz
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https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/groff/groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz.sig
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]]
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Here are the SHA-1 and SHA-256 checksums.
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz
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yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz
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The SHA-256 checksum is encoded in Base64 instead of the hexadecimal
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form that most checksum tools default to. The mechanism follows.
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sha256sum < groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz | cut -f1 -d\ | xxd -r -p | base64
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[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
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.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig
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file and the corresponding archive. Then, verify the archive.
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gpg --verify groff-1.yy.0.tar.gz{.sig,}
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If that command fails because you don't have the required public
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key, you can import it.
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wget -O 96214.asc \
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'https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=96214'
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gpg --import 96214.asc
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Re-run the 'gpg --verify' command subsequently.
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Caveats
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=======
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o GNU tools, or otherwise POSIX-conforming ones, are generally required
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to build on Solaris 10 or 11. See the "PROBLEMS" file in the
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distribution archive.
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o Solaris 10 has known problems with automated tests; see the "PROBLEMS"
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file in the distribution archive.
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News
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====
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[[ maintainer: insert output of
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"sed -n '/VERSION 1\.yy/{n;:X;n;/VERSION 1\.23/q;p;bX}' NEWS" ]]
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Acknowledgements
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================
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We'd like to thank the following people for helping ensure the quality
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of this release.
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[[ maintainer: Collect "thanks to" credits from the ChangeLog file, for
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instance with "grep -i -A1 thanks ChangeLog". A manual merge of
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similar from the contrib/ change log files may also be necessary. ]]
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Alex Colomar
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Alexander Kanavin
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Alexis (surryhill)
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Bjarni Ingi Gislason
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Brian Inglis
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Bruno Haible
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Carsten Kunze
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Christof Meerwald
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Colin Watson
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Collin Funk
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Damian McGuckin
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Dave Kemper
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Deri James
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Doug McIlroy
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Eli Schwartz
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Eloi Montañés
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Frederic Chartier
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Gavin Smith
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Hans Bezemer
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Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
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Helge Kreutzmann, manpages-l10n project
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Ian Ropers
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Ingo Schwarze
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Jeff Conrad
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Joerg van den Hoff
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Lennart Jablonka
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Lukas Javorsky
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Michał Kruszewski
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Mike Fulton
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Morten Bo Johansen
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Nikita Ivanov
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Patrice Dumas
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Paul Eggert
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Peter Schaffter
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Phil Chadwick
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Pim
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Ralph Corderoy
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Sven Schober
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Tadziu Hoffman
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Thorsten Glaser
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Thérèse Godefroy
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Walter Alejandro Iglesias
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Werner Lemberg
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