URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68047>
Summary: Kill off support for Trevor Darnell's "psfig"
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 14 Feb 2026 04:40:58 PM UTC
Category: General
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: Postponed
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Planned Release: None
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Date: Sat 14 Feb 2026 04:40:58 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
I think the files "tmac/psfig.tmac" and "src/devices/grops/psfig.diff" can
probably be simply nuked without a deprecation period. I suspect doing so
barely even warrants a "NEWS" entry.
Almost everything you can find on the Web about "psfig" refers to the
unrelated CTAN package.
Explanation from forthcoming commit:
diff --git a/tmac/psfig.tmac b/tmac/psfig.tmac
index 5b6132ee2..61dd50e56 100644
--- a/tmac/psfig.tmac
+++ b/tmac/psfig.tmac
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.\" Define macros to support use of Trevor Darnell's "psfig",
+.\" distributed in volume 11 of comp.unix.sources, and not to be
+.\" confused with the unrelated TeX macro package "psfig" available at
+.\" CTAN. (Neither is Free Software.)
.\"
-.\" psfig.tmac
+.\" These macros require that psfig be patched as described in
+.\" "src/devices/grops/psfig.diff".
.\"
-.\" These are macros to make psfig work with groff.
-.\" They require that psfig be patched as described in ../grops/psfig.diff.
+.\" This file is likely to disappear in a future groff release.
+.\"
+.\" Use groff's `PSPIC` macro instead. See groff_tmac(5).
.
.do nr *groff_psfig_tmac_C \n[.cp]
.cp 0
Born postponed. Consider for _groff_ 1.25.
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