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[groff] 17/38: NEWS: Add item for vanishing PSUtils dependency.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 17/38: NEWS: Add item for vanishing PSUtils dependency.
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:59:57 -0400 (EDT)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit fcccfea6d483d7f18063fb4943727a443fc4854c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 19 15:24:51 2024 -0500

    NEWS: Add item for vanishing PSUtils dependency.
---
 NEWS | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 685431829..a4d3ee600 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -263,6 +263,11 @@ o grog(1) no longer supports the `--ligatures` and `--run` 
options.
 o The minimum version of Perl required to build groff is now 5.8 (18
   July 2002), incremented from 5.6.1.
 
+o groff no longer requires the PSUtils package to build; the
+  pre-grohtml(1) preprocessor that used the `psselect` command now uses
+  Ghostscript's ps2ps(1) instead.  PSUtils might continue to be useful
+  to a groff user at run time, of course.
+
 o The groff_diff(7) man page no longer contains examples.  They remain
   in groff's Texinfo manual.
 



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