At Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:52:29 +0900, Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
