On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 01:26:50PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
> After the upgrade, I tried a groff job, with
> the -l option, which is supposed to send the 
> output to the printer.  Instead, it sent the
> output to stdout.

I'd appreciate it if you could try out
<URL:http://incoming.debian.org/groff_1.15.2-3_i386.deb> and let me know
if it (a) solves your problem and (b) works otherwise. Here's the
complete diff between the old release and the new:

diff -u groff-1.15.2/debian/changelog groff-1.15.2/debian/changelog
--- groff-1.15.2/debian/changelog
+++ groff-1.15.2/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+groff (1.15.2-3) stable; urgency=high
+
+  * Use lpr as the print spooler, even if it happens not to be installed on
+    the build system. Version 1.15.2-2 broke 'groff -l', which worked with
+    previous versions of groff in stable (thanks, Mike Fontenot).
+
+ -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:07:34 +0000
+
 groff (1.15.2-2) stable; urgency=high
 
   * Security upload by new maintainer, backported from unstable.
diff -u groff-1.15.2/debian/rules groff-1.15.2/debian/rules
--- groff-1.15.2/debian/rules
+++ groff-1.15.2/debian/rules
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 Makefile:      ./configure
        $(checkdir)
        -rm -f config.log config.cache
-       ./configure --prefix=/usr
+       PSPRINT=lpr ./configure --prefix=/usr
 
 xditview/Makefile:
        $(checkdir)

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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