From 8b940dac32c2a37f93b8670751a0e5f72ec86cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Kangas Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 04:56:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mark metamail.el as obsolete (Bug#41388) The metamail package was last released in 1994, and has been removed from most GNU/Linux distributions due to being buggy and unmaintained. * lisp/mail/metamail.el: Move from here... * lisp/obsolete/metamail.el: ...to here. * etc/NEWS: Mention its obsoletion. --- etc/NEWS | 2 ++ lisp/{mail => obsolete}/metamail.el | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) rename lisp/{mail => obsolete}/metamail.el (99%) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index e09f32a7c35..e97755a4541 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -405,6 +405,8 @@ Previously 'xml-print' would produce invalid XML when given a string with characters that are not valid in XML (see https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charsets). Now it rejects such strings. +** The metamail.el library is now marked obsolete. + * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 28.1 diff --git a/lisp/mail/metamail.el b/lisp/obsolete/metamail.el similarity index 99% rename from lisp/mail/metamail.el rename to lisp/obsolete/metamail.el index 0e407ea060e..d6ab4a3d0cf 100644 --- a/lisp/mail/metamail.el +++ b/lisp/obsolete/metamail.el @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ ;; Author: Masanobu UMEDA ;; Keywords: mail, news, mime, multimedia +;; Obsolete-since: 28.1 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. -- 2.39.5