Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months

From: Gregory Shapiro <gshapiro_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:24:33 -0700
> > Ulrich Sprlein wrote this message on Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 16:36 +0200:
> > > those roff sources have been very naughty and will be removed from the
> > > tree by the end of the year. Most of those papers are severely out of
> > > date and provide no more use to the system. They can probably also be
> > > found online using a search engine of your choice.

As pointed out:

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:11:24PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> And e.g. sendmail documentation is fresh and updated together with
> sendmail imports, AFAIR.

Konstantin is correct -- every sendmail import refreshes what is built
by share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile.  That document (operations
guide) should not be removed.

> > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them
> > > over to the doc repository.

That would cause a problem for contrib/ style imports like sendmail.
In the base source tree, share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile (for
example) reads the documentation files from contrib/sendmail/doc/.
Moving share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/Makefile to a different repo would be
an issue since the document source files are in the src repo.  I don't
think contrib packages should be imported into two trees.

How are the roff sources "naughty"?  If there are ancient/problematic
ones, remove them, not everything.  Worst case, I'll find another
place to put the sendmailop Makefile and install the output under
/usr/share/sendmail/.
Received on Fri Oct 19 2012 - 14:24:35 UTC

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