Bug#522364: debian-policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement

[Russ Allbery]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: minor

This looks extremely obsolete.  I think it can just be removed.

Seconds?

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 975df94..a5c9d13 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -5697,12 +5697,6 @@ rmdir /usr/local/share/emacs 2>/dev/null || true
            by any particular mail agents.  The use of the old
            location <file>/var/spool/mail</file> is deprecated, even
            though the spool may still be physically located there.
-           To maintain partial upgrade compatibility for systems
-           which have <file>/var/spool/mail</file> as their physical mail
-           spool, packages using <file>/var/mail</file> must depend on
-           either <package>libc6</package> (&gt;= 2.1.3-13), or on
-           <package>base-files</package> (&gt;= 2.2.0), or on later
-           versions of either one of these packages.
          </p>
        </sect1>
       </sect>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii  doc-base                      0.9.1      utilities to manage online documen

-- no debconf information



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