> 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 the file /usr/share/misc/man.template is horribly outdated and 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!
