Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64772 (project groff): [comment #1 comment #1:] > I see no need to abandon "hdtbl".
The proposal to deprecate it means it should exist in the next n releases of groff with notice that it's deprecated. It's unclear how much use it gets, as every reported bug against it seems to have arisen from code inspection or build warnings, rather than from actual use of the macros, despite the fact that they're "buggy as hell" (per Ingo). But announcing its deprecation is more likely to smoke out any actual users. Are you generating Heidelberger tables for your own work, or merely running basic tests against the package because it's part of groff? > This software is in the "contrib" category, those who want to use it > are more or less on their own. That's not the purpose of "contrib". Per the file [http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/LICENSES LICENSES]: "Files in the contrib/ subdirectory of the source distribution are not strictly part of groff. That is, they are distributed with it and are Free Software <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html>, but they are not considered essential parts of the distribution. Further, they may bear licenses other than the GPL or the FSF does not administer their copyrights." There's more discussion of this in bug #59545. (Granted, LICENSES is not an intuitive place to look for this info. A README or similar in "contrib" itself might be useful.) If users are "more or less on their own," probably the appropriate place for that code is in a source repository separate from groff's. Groff declining to distribute it doesn't mean no one else can. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64772> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
