[groff] 09/25: tmac/safer.tmac: Delete.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 1843cc37ee53c377c0043a1d50fa85ff89357fa2
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 23 23:34:21 2022 +1100

    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>.
---
 ChangeLog       | 9 +++++++++
 NEWS            | 7 +++++++
 tmac/safer.tmac | 7 -------
 tmac/tmac.am    | 1 -
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a93dad57..f7b9fa86 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+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
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 96f09ace..6ae1ed1b 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 a95edab3..00000000
--- 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 33006425..60db7c3c 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 \