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Bug#621479: debian-policy: retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)



On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:49:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I was just looking at the incoming version of policy, and it occurred to
> > me: is there any particular reason why there still needs to be a section
> > in policy for "The OSF/Motif and OpenMotif libraries"?  It defines the
> > circumstances under which packages compiled against non-free Motif
> > should be given names with -smotif or -dmotif suffixes; but the last
> > such package left in the archive vanished or switched to LessTif
> > somewhere around about Sarge.  The only remaining rdeps of libmotif4
> > that I can see anywhere in Debian are the other members of the openmotif
> > source package.

> Yeah, this whole section looks completely obsolete.  I think we should
> just remove it entirely.  Objections or seconds?

Seconded.

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