svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars

[Gordon Bergling]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:01:46PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 22/09/2020 06:06, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > Big ol plus one from me.
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 4:16 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> In message <202009212255.08LMtpSp078237 at repo.freebsd.org>, Greg Lehey
> >> writes:
> >>> Author: grog
> >>> Date: Mon Sep 21 22:55:51 2020
> >>> New Revision: 365984
> >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365984
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   Remove claim that Allied Forces created "West Germany" in 1953.  I can
> >>>   find no historic substantiation for such a claim.  The Federal
> >>>   Republic of Germany was created by Germans on 23 May 1949, as also
> >>>   noted in this file.
> >>>
> >>> Modified:
> >>>   head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
> >>>
> >>> Modified: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history
> >>> =============================================================================
> >>> =
> >>> --- head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history  Mon Sep 21 22:52:57 202
> >>> 0     (r365983)
> >>> +++ head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.history  Mon Sep 21 22:55:51 202
> >>> 0     (r365984)
> >>> @@ -521,7 +521,6 @@
> >>>  09/20        Magellan leaves Spain on the first Round the World passage, 151
> >>> 9
> >>>  09/20        The Roxy Theater opens in Hollywood, 1973
> >>>  09/21        J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published, 1937
> >>> -09/22        Allied forces form the independent nation West Germany, 1953
> >>>  09/22        US President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
> >>>  09/22        Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas US President Nixon,
> >>> 1974
> >>>  09/22        The first Soviet atomic bomb explodes, 1949
> >>>
> >>
> >> Does this file still need to be in FreeBSD? It may have been a novelty back
> >> in the day but IMO calendar.history has nothing to do with BSD, computers
> >> or anything else of interest to FreeBSD. At the very least this file should
> >> be moved to ports or better yet, removed entirely. I simply don't see the
> >> point of it being in the tree and distributed with an O/S, any O/S.
> 
> I think that the only reason for this file's existence in the source tree is for
> Greg's staving off the commit bit reaper.
> No offense meant.
> 
> P.S.
> And occasional flame wars, it seems.

We already had a similar discussion in march 2020 after r358561 [1].

In the short, the calendar utility has it's historic place, even it's
just more a kind of tradition, like adding yourself as a FreeBSD committer
to calendar.freebsd.

[1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2020-March/thread.html

-- Gordon