Follow-up Comment #6, bug #67612 (group groff): On Wednesday, 22 October 2025 15:11:23 BST Dave wrote: > Follow-up Comment #5, bug #67612 (group groff): > > Thanks, Deri, for the succinct how-we-got-here. Might be worth checking > whether any other messages also got misclassified in the overhaul; this is > just one I happened across. > > I do notice an unexpected result from the test case of bug #67616: > > $ groff -Tpdf -P--pdfver=1.5 < /dev/null > gropdf: warning: Only pdf versions 1.4 or 1.7 are supported, not '1.5' > $ echo $? > 0 > > This is a case of "may fail to render as desired," since gropdf cannot give > the user what they asked for. However, that's with a null input, so maybe > it's OK: the expected nonzero code comes up with even minimal input: > > $ echo 'Yo!' | groff -Tpdf -P--pdfver=1.5 > /dev/null > gropdf: warning: Only pdf versions 1.4 or 1.7 are supported, not '1.5' > $ echo $? > 4 > Yes, I agree, another one to demote to Notice. The pdf produced will perfectly
acceptable, but in 1.7 format. If the user requires the earlier format then
the job can be re-run using 1.4.
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