From 6137ebd5a491130277a783ac05cb2ae114fb4edc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Kangas Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:15:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- doc/misc/gnus.texi | 8 -------- lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index 204c6c6e598..c5298d8ef59 100644 --- 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 6990d8ee778..ee6cab365f3 100644 --- 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. -- 2.39.5