Make gnus-uu-view-with-metamail obsolete

The metamail package was last released in 1994, and has been removed
from most GNU/Linux distributions due to being buggy and unmaintained.

* lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el (gnus-uu-view-with-metamail): Make obsolete.
* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Other Decode Variables): Don't document
above obsolete variable.

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index 204c6c6e59829a49bb93ea416cc28806fccf1496..c5298d8ef59d2b4901dbafa1c120506203fd9883 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -8619,14 +8619,6 @@ uuencoded files that have had trailing spaces deleted.
 @vindex gnus-uu-pre-uudecode-hook
 Hook run before sending a message to @code{uudecode}.
 
-@item gnus-uu-view-with-metamail
-@vindex gnus-uu-view-with-metamail
-@cindex metamail
-Non-@code{nil} means that @code{gnus-uu} will ignore the viewing
-commands defined by the rule variables and just fudge a @acronym{MIME}
-content type based on the file name.  The result will be fed to
-@code{metamail} for viewing.
-
 @item gnus-uu-save-in-digest
 @vindex gnus-uu-save-in-digest
 Non-@code{nil} means that @code{gnus-uu}, when asked to save without

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el
index 6990d8ee778cca739bb748ea59c551f4c1ab2a67..ee6cab365f3e08c0195f988d2d4420b262087714 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el
@@ -260,9 +260,10 @@ Default is t."
   "Non-nil means that files will be viewed with metamail.
 The gnus-uu viewing functions will be ignored and gnus-uu will try
 to guess at a content-type based on file name suffixes.  Default
-it nil."
+is nil."
   :group 'gnus-extract
   :type 'boolean)
+(make-obsolete-variable 'gnus-uu-view-with-metamail "don't use it." "29.1")
 
 (defcustom gnus-uu-unmark-articles-not-decoded nil
   "If non-nil, gnus-uu will mark unsuccessfully decoded articles as unread.