More patches for manual pages

[Preuße, Hilmar]

On 12.01.2025 22:20, Karl Berry wrote:

Hello Karl,

>      here in Debian we collected/received another set of patches for manual
>      pages. See [1]: 1039977.patch, 1072254.patch, 1072319.patch,
>      1088318.patch, 1088853.patch, 1091540.patch, 1091615.patch,
>      1091618.patch, 1091630.patch
>      https://github.com/debian-tex/texlive-bin/tree/master/debian/patches
> 
> I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble with these changes. They look like
> automated transformations of \\ to \e, - to \-, removal of trailing
> whitespace, and other such things. But as far as I can see the original
> source works fine. So why the churn? I'm sure you have a reason, but what?
> 

Bjarni sends in a lot of patches. As you know he runs some kind of page 
validator and then creates patches based on the validator results:

test-[g|n]roff -mandoc -t -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -rCHECKSTYLE=10 -ww -z < 
"man page"

I just get the bug reports. I know that the patches do not contain real 
content changes, but I assume that they are useful somehow. Therefore I 
try to submit them anywhere, where the could be useful.

> Finally, some of these (tex2aspc at least) are not maintained in TL 
> and thus should go upstream. It would be nice if one of you could 
> sort that out instead of leaving it for me
> 

Sorry for that! I try to filter out code patches not really belonging to 
TL before submitting. I missed (at least) that one, feel free to ignore it.


Thanks,
   Hilmar

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