[debian-devel:11534] Re: Installed man-db 2.3.10-70 (source i386)

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:52:29 +0900,
Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > man-db_2.3.10-70_i386.deb
> >   to dists/potato/main/binary-i386/doc/man-db_2.3.10-70.deb
> >   replacing man-db_2.3.10-69s.deb
> 
> >  man-db (2.3.10-70) frozen unstable; urgency=low
> >  .
> 
> >    * added (but not enabled) new option -H (-Thtml) to take advantage of
> >      new html driver (still experimental but getting better) in groff.
> >    * as a consequence, added versioned dependency to groff >= 1.15
> 
> I have not check wheter groff 1.15 supports Japanese characters, does it ?
> If it does, then please ignore the rest of this mail. Excuse me.

No, as I checked groff 1.15-2, it couldn't handle Japanese roff properly.

> If the current groff package does not support Japanese, then I think
> the users who require the support for Japanese encoded manpages will
> have difficulties, because we can not use the "provide with version",
> and because the jgroff is required to display those manpages.
> 
> Can you consider one of several option:
> 
> 1) add jgroff in Depends: line,
> 
>        Depends: groff >= 1.15|jgroff, libc6 (>= 2.1)

I think this is the best solution for potato release.

BTW, jgroff is based on groff 1.11, so if man-db should
depends on groff >= 1.15, then jgroff should be built 
based on 1.15, shouldn't it?   Does anyone work for it?

> 2) Depends: groff without version and adding 
>    the Recommend or Suggest line with groff >= 1.15
> 
>        Depends: groff, libc6 (>= 2.1)
>        Suggests: bsdmainutils, groff >= 1.15
> 
> or 
> 
>        Depends: groff, libc6 (>= 2.1)
>        Recommends: groff >= 1.15
>        Suggests: bsdmainutils

This is acceptable solution.
 
> 3) Merge the Japanese support into your groff, and
>    add depends to that version
> 
>        Depends: groff >= (the version with Japanese support), libc6 (>= 2.1)

For potato release, I'm afraid this makes groff unstable...

Anyway, current stuation is release critical, because all Japanese 
manual pages are useless.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI