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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 09:55:09 -0800
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Y2K: groff in the tree out of date 
Message-ID:  <200002161755.JAA99570@ted.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:50:36 %2B0200." <11913.950712636@axl.noc.iafrica.com> 

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:29:19 PST, Ted Faber wrote:
>
>> The groff in 3.4-stable is out of date.
>
>Be sure to catch 4.0-RELEASE. :-)

I was planning on it.  Just so I understand, 3.x will not have it's
groff updated?

>
>> Should I submit a PR on this?
>
>You'd probably be wasting your time, given that a Merge From Current is
>unlikely for something like this.  Unless there are critical bugfixes, I
>wouldn't worry about it.

I've got a workaround on my systems, but documents are misdated under
groff 1.11 without a fix (and I don't know that my fix is
comprehensive - I just fixed problems I saw).  At one point FreeBSD
was making a big point about being Y2K compliant.  If that's still an
issue, well, groff 1.11 isn't Y2K-compliant and ships installed on
FreeBSD systems.  If not, I'm apparently the only one using groff to
write papers. :-)

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Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
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