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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:49:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 
> 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>
>  
>        <sect id="perl">
> 

Seconded.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan