[Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: Question about groff \`

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Mon Dec 14 15:21:50 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 02:46:03PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I agree with you about the contents of the documentation, but
> > unfortunately:
> > 
> >   $ echo '`' | nroff -Tutf8 | grep .
> >   ‘
> >   $ echo '\`' | nroff -Tutf8 | grep .
> >   `
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Can you help us understand, then, why #557964 is reproducible in stable but not
> in unstable?  What changed?

My guess would be a major new version of groff covering about six years
of upstream development. :-)

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]





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