Re: trivial change to .ab intentional?

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID <20260106165645.wzw4bfbsjl5ulz5l@illithid>
At 2026-01-06T04:51:10-0600, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Sometime in the past three weeks, the behavior of groff's .ab request
> changed slightly, so that it now emits a newline to stderr even when
> there is no abort message.  Is this change intentional?

Filed as Savannah #67890.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67890

And I'll have you know, sir, that the commit causing the trouble did
_not_ advertise itself as "trivial".  ;-)

I knew by making the change, I was poking my finger deeper than that.

And got some sharp little teeth buried in it for my impertinence.

Sorry about that.

Regards,
Branden
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