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Re: Installed man-db 2.3.10-70 (source i386)



At Sun, 06 Feb 2000 23:41:44 +0900,
Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> 
> At Sun, 6 Feb 2000 09:52:29 +0900,
> Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> 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.

groff 1.15-3 doesn't work for Japanese too, so current dependency of 
man-db breaks Japanese manpages.

Anyway, I'll try to build jgroff based on groff 1.15-3.

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI


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