[bug #61831] safer.tmac: kill off

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61831>

                 Summary: safer.tmac: kill off
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Sun 16 Jan 2022 07:16:22 AM UTC
                Category: Macro - others/general
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Feature change
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

The rationale for this do-nothing macro is set out in its text.


.\" 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.


man-db man(1) seems to be the sole surviving FLOSS, troff-based
man page renderer.  (What I call Brouwer/Lucifredi man, to which
Red Hat/Fedora clung like grim death for many years despite its
many deficiencies compared to man-db, was finally abandoned by
them in about 2011.)

Let's get rid of it.

People using such man(1) implementations can work around this
issue by touch(1)ing an empty safer.tmac file.  So say that in
NEWS if/when we do this.





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