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authorG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-02-23 23:34:21 +1100
committerG. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>2022-02-26 00:46:04 +1100
commit1843cc37ee53c377c0043a1d50fa85ff89357fa2 (patch)
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parent64648e3b9c5d0fecb6e46d38675c7dfd1ef7a985 (diff)
downloadgroff-git-1843cc37ee53c377c0043a1d50fa85ff89357fa2.tar.gz
tmac/safer.tmac: Delete.
* tmac/safer.tmac: Drop file from distribution. It contained only comments. * tmac/tmac.am (TMACNORMALFILES): Delete reference. * NEWS: Add item. Suggest two workarounds for its absence. Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61831>.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog9
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--tmac/safer.tmac7
-rw-r--r--tmac/tmac.am1
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a93dad579..f7b9fa86d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
2022-02-23 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
+ * tmac/safer.tmac: Drop file from distribution. It contained
+ only comments.
+ * tmac/tmac.am (TMACNORMALFILES): Delete reference.
+ * NEWS: Add item. Suggest two workarounds for its absence.
+
+ Fixes <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61831>.
+
+2022-02-23 G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
+
* tmac/doc.tmac (initialization): Drop definition of
`doc-curr-size` register. It is no longer needed since nothing
internal to the package now changes the type size.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 96f09aceb..6ae1ed1bf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -327,6 +327,13 @@ o The s (ms) macro package has added a hook macro, `FS-MARK`, which is
distributed with groff as `pdfmark.ms`, uses this technique. Thanks
to Keith Marshall.
+o The "safer.tmac" file has been dropped from the distribution. It was
+ present only to support man(1) programs that unconditionally passed
+ the formatter the "-msafer" option, and has contained only comments
+ for over 20 years. If your man(1) program has this requirement, you
+ can create an empty file of this name in groff's macro file search
+ path (see troff(1)) or consider migrating to man-db man(1).
+
gropdf
------
diff --git a/tmac/safer.tmac b/tmac/safer.tmac
deleted file mode 100644
index a95edab3c..000000000
--- a/tmac/safer.tmac
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-.\" -*- nroff -*-
-.\"
-.\" This file is no longer needed; it has been replaced with a built-in
-.\" solution.
-.\"
-.\" It just exists for compatibility reasons with older man programs
-.\" which explicitly load this file.
diff --git a/tmac/tmac.am b/tmac/tmac.am
index 33006425f..60db7c3c9 100644
--- a/tmac/tmac.am
+++ b/tmac/tmac.am
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ TMACNORMALFILES = \
tmac/papersize.tmac \
tmac/62bit.tmac \
tmac/ec.tmac \
- tmac/safer.tmac \
tmac/trace.tmac \
tmac/ps.tmac \
tmac/psold.tmac \