Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:56:30 +0200
From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months
Message-ID: <20121020145630.GK69724@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201210201224.q9KCOSvN097641@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 14:24:28 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:14:28 -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > On 19 October 2012 10:36, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs@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. > > It's awful damage from just not wanting to upgrade to a new groff > with GPL3, to also throwing out older working groff plus text sources > formatted by it. I use groff daily. There'll always be textproc/groff. Cheers, Uli
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