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

[Shawn Webb]

Forwarding to freebsd-arch at freebsd.org per Scott Long's request.

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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:24:24 -0400
From: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb at hardenedbsd.org>
To: Gordon Bergling <gbe at freebsd.org>
Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>, cem at freebsd.org, Cy Schubert
 <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>, src-committers <src-committers at freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r365984 - head/usr.bin/calendar/calendars

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 09:18:43PM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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

Would it make sense to prune calendar entries to only BSD-related
entries?

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Thanks,

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