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Date:      Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:44:51 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 273245] textproc/groff: groff_mdoc(7): output from 'man 7 groff_mdoc' is badly broken
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Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|Affects Some People         |Affects Many People
                 CC|                            |yasu@freebsd.org
             Status|New                         |Open

--- Comment #4 from Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to G. Branden Robinson from comment #3)

Are you aware that this tiny change (-man -> -mandoc) will break some of our
core FreeBSD tools, and a lot of third-party tools which we use in the base
system? Not to mention some FreeBSD ports which may fail as well.

This will affect all FreeBSD releases/branches (12/13/14/15) that we suppor=
t. A
possible workaround is to downgrade the groff port to 1.22.4 locally.

Checking our repos I see that we need to change ~100 files:

for i in freebsd-{src,ports,doc};do (cd $i && printf "$i "; git grep 'roff.*
-man[^d]' |wc -l );done
freebsd-src 35
freebsd-ports 51
freebsd-doc 9

Thinking about the issue - maybe we should just patch the FreeBSD port of g=
roff
and revert this change. It hurts a lot of our users.

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