Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: remove GNU_ROFF option

From: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2021, 13:11 UTC
Message-ID: <CAN0heSoQDv_fA+g7SVYDhp7Cv3nx1sYXDOWJ9cC2EiZ42Wv6VQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20210512021138.63598-2-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On Wed, 12 May 2021 at 04:11, brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:

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>
> Additionally, this functionality was implemented in 2010.  Since nobody
> is shipping security support for an operating system that old anymore,
> we can just safely assume that the user has upgraded their system in the
> past decade and remove the GNU_ROFF option and its corresponding
> stylesheet altogether.
> ---
>  Documentation/Makefile               |  8 --------
>  Documentation/manpage-quote-apos.xsl | 16 ----------------
>  2 files changed, 24 deletions(-)

Thanks for dropping this cruft. There's a blurb about GNU_ROFF in the top-level Makefile as well. We should lose it here.

Martin

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