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

Ulrich Spörlein uqs at FreeBSD.org
Sat Oct 20 11:52:20 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:14:28 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 19 October 2012 10:36, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them
> > over to the doc repository.
> 
> Moving them to the doc repo loses the history, for what gain?
> 
> You mention that the roff sources are 'naughty'. Are they holding up
> some project?

Replying to this only here: If you have a look at your calendar, you
might get the reference :)

They are holding up the removal of groff from the base system, which we
can no longer update thanks to the project policy wrt. GPLv3.

Uli


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