> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:39:15 +0100
> From: Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the file /usr/share/misc/man.template is horribly outdated and
> incomplete, compare it to mdoc.template in the same directory.
> 
> I think deleting it completely is better than updating it, because
> nobody is supposed to manually write new man(7) manuals, certainly
> not in OpenBSD, but nowehere else, either, really.  If you do need
> man(7) code, you can generate it with mandoc -Tman from mdoc(7)
> input, like it is done in the portable sudo(8) build system.
> 
> People do continue to write and maintain tools to generate man(7)
> code, think of pod2man(1) or mandoc -Tman.  But man.template
> is not helping with such tasks at all.
> 
> I got an OK from jmc@ for zapping it, but want to make sure
> people don't regard it as still useful for reasons we missed.
> 
> Objections, OKs?

zap it!

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