[screen-devel] [bug #55644] Manpage Update Needed

[Ken]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55644>

                 Summary: Manpage Update Needed
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: mayhem30
            Submitted on: Mon 04 Feb 2019 04:34:43 PM UTC
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.2
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

Screen comes packaged with and old format man file. It should be updated to
something more modern.

For example, FreeBSD users are required to install Groff just to view this
manpage. Almost all other manpages do not require this external program to
view it.

This is what's currently needed just to view the screen manpage - it just
seems excessive and unnecessary :

$ sudo synth status textproc/groff
Scanning existing packages.
These are the ports that would be built ([N]ew, [R]ebuild, [U]pgrade):
  N => devel/gperf
  N => print/libpaper
  N => dns/libidn
  N => graphics/jbig2dec
  N => graphics/poppler-data
  N => x11-fonts/fontconfig
  N => print/ghostscript9-agpl-base
  N => print/gsfonts
  N => print/psutils
  N => textproc/groff
Total packages that would be built: 10




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