Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:59:22PM +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> while the various README files are helpful, not everyone has the bat >> book at hand for more complex questions. Here's a diff to update the >> doc/op/Makefile and make it useful to people who have groff installed. >> > > these were disabled from the build in -r1.10, a couple of years ago: > > ---------------------------- > revision 1.10 > date: 2010/10/17 22:54:37; author: schwarze; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 > Stop installing me(1) and ms(1) source code. > We will soon get rid of groff in base, > so there is no longer any way to use these files with base. > No opposition on tech@. > ---------------------------- > > actually all the /usr/share/doc stuff, more or less, got disabled. not > enough people wanted them, and too many didn;t. > > jmc
OK, perhaps should I have taken more time to explain my thinking: my understanding was indeed that those had been on-purpose unlinked from the build, and I do not suggest re-linking them. My point was just to make the sendmail documentation that is still shipped in the source tree more visible (correcting the etc/mail/README file was probably the most important bit). But given that smtpd is pretty stable and (I might be wrong, I didn't discuss it with people involved) should soon replace sendmail as the one and only MTA in base, I thought updating this Makefile would just be a one-shot job with no possible side-effect. It's very unlikely that a new Sendmail release lands into base, right? I would understand a plain "no" here, but then I'd suggest to just remove the /usr/share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/op.me reference in etc/mail/README. PS: are there people already working on a sendmail port? -- Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas GPG Key fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
