Re: [PATCH] mdoc: Update operating system release numbers

[Ingo Schwarze]

Hello Colin and Guillem,

Colin Watson wrote on Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:15:30PM +0000:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:14:06PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:

>> Based on a patch from Guillem Jover <address@hidden>.
>> 
>> * tmac/doc-common-u: Update NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Darwin, and
>> DragonFly version strings.
>> 
>> * tmac/groff_mdoc.7.man: Synchronize.

> Side note: I am not the biggest fan of this business of encoding a bunch
> of other projects' release history in groff, so please don't take me as
> an advocate of that.  However, I am generally an advocate of the
> position that if one is going to encode this sort of thing then it makes
> sense to keep it up to date.

I completely agree with all you are saying here.

Consequently, i just pushed the patch to the upstream groff repository,
with the following tweaks:

 * I included the following versions which appeared to be missing:
    - NetBSD 6.0.6 and 7.2
    - DragonFly 3.0.2 and 3.2.2

 * I did *not* include the following releases because x.y.0 are not
   included for any other DragonFly releases: DragonFly 3.6.0 and 3.8.0.
   I'm not a DragonFly user and i'm not completely sure what would make
   most sense for that system, so i just stuck to existing practice as
   best i could.

I do think that removing version verification and just printing
whatever the manual page author requests in the same way as mandoc(1)
is already doing it would be an improvement, but that should be discussed
separately, not in this ticket.

Thanks for your patch,
  Ingo