Debian's `lintian' tool says: These badges may be displayed to tell readers that care has been taken to make a page compliant with W3C standards. Unfortunately, downloading the image from www.w3.org might expose the reader's IP address to potential tracking.
I think the risk is a small one, but I also don't think the badges are especially valuable, so it doesn't seem like much to ask to just drop them at least for groff's own documentation. * doc/doc.am (.ms.html, doc/pic.html): Remove `-P-V' option. --- ChangeLog | 17 +++++++++++++++++ doc/doc.am | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e0263e6c..76491b1e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,20 @@ +2017-02-18 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> + + doc: stop generating W3C validation icons + + Debian's `lintian' tool says: + + These badges may be displayed to tell readers that care has been + taken to make a page compliant with W3C standards. Unfortunately, + downloading the image from www.w3.org might expose the reader's IP + address to potential tracking. + + I think the risk is a small one, but I also don't think the badges + are especially valuable, so it doesn't seem like much to ask to just + drop them at least for groff's own documentation. + + * doc/doc.am (.ms.html, doc/pic.html): Remove `-P-V' option. + 2017-02-16 Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> mdoc %T: use typographic quotes diff --git a/doc/doc.am b/doc/doc.am index 27f47d61..b662f13a 100644 --- a/doc/doc.am +++ b/doc/doc.am @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ SUFFIXES += .me .ms .ps .html .txt .texi .dvi .pdf .xhtml .ms.html: @$(MKDIR_P) `dirname $@` $(DOC_GROFF) -P-p -P-b -P-I`basename $< | sed -e 's|.ms$$||'` \ - -P-D$(imagedir) -P-V -Thtml -ms >$@ + -P-D$(imagedir) -Thtml -ms >$@ .ms.txt: @$(MKDIR_P) `dirname $@` $(DOC_GROFF) -Tascii -ms -mwww >$@ @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ doc/pic.html: $(doc_srcdir)/pic.ms $(devhtmlfont_DATA) cd $(doc_builddir) && \ $(DOC_SED) $(doc_srcdir)/pic.ms | \ $(DOC_GROFF_ONLY) -P-p -P-Ipic -P-D$(imagedir) -P-jpic \ - -Thtml -P-V -ms > pic.html + -Thtml -ms > pic.html doc/examples.stamp: doc/groff.css @$(MKDIR_P) $(doc_builddir) -- 2.11.0