Bug#621479: debian-policy: retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> writes:

> I was just looking at the incoming version of policy, and it occurred to
> me: is there any particular reason why there still needs to be a section
> in policy for "The OSF/Motif and OpenMotif libraries"?  It defines the
> circumstances under which packages compiled against non-free Motif
> should be given names with -smotif or -dmotif suffixes; but the last
> such package left in the archive vanished or switched to LessTif
> somewhere around about Sarge.  The only remaining rdeps of libmotif4
> that I can see anywhere in Debian are the other members of the openmotif
> source package.

Yeah, this whole section looks completely obsolete.  I think we should
just remove it entirely.  Objections or seconds?

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 91173a5..9b4a93e 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9370,41 +9370,6 @@ name ["<var>syshostname</var>"]:
 	    policy (such as for <ref id="appdefaults">).
 	  </p>
 	</sect1>
-
-	<sect1>
-	  <heading>The OSF/Motif and OpenMotif libraries</heading>
-
-	  <p>
-	    <em>Programs that require the non-DFSG-compliant OSF/Motif or
-	      OpenMotif libraries</em><footnote>
-		OSF/Motif and OpenMotif are collectively referred to as
-		"Motif" in this policy document.
-	    </footnote>
-	    should be compiled against and tested with LessTif (a free
-	    re-implementation of Motif) instead.  If the maintainer
-	    judges that the program or programs do not work
-	    sufficiently well with LessTif to be distributed and
-	    supported, but do so when compiled against Motif, then two
-	    versions of the package should be created; one linked
-	    statically against Motif and with <tt>-smotif</tt>
-	    appended to the package name, and one linked dynamically
-	    against Motif and with <tt>-dmotif</tt> appended to the
-	    package name.
-	  </p>
-
-	  <p>
-	    Both Motif-linked versions are dependent
-	    upon non-DFSG-compliant software and thus cannot be
-	    uploaded to the <em>main</em> distribution; if the
-	    software is itself DFSG-compliant it may be uploaded to
-	    the <em>contrib</em> distribution.  While known existing
-	    versions of Motif permit unlimited redistribution of
-	    binaries linked against the library (whether statically or
-	    dynamically), it is the package maintainer's
-	    responsibility to determine whether this is permitted by
-	    the license of the copy of Motif in their possession.
-	  </p>
-	</sect1>
       </sect>
 
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>