Subject: Re: bug#49308: GNU sed for Tru6 configure CFLAGS?
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>, Jay K <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked] List" <[email-masked]>, Larkin Nickle <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 14:46:03 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 8/4/21 2:29 PM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> (But as you're aware, there's a limited amount of support for older 
> systems...)

Yes, HP dropped support for Tru64 in 2012, and a good rule of thumb for 
GNU code is to not worry about an OS if it's so old that even its own 
maintainer doesn't worry about it.

Gnulib finally got around to dropping support for Tru64 in 2019, in the 
sense that we removed some documentation about it (we haven't bothered 
cleaning up the code). Although we don't worry about Tru64 now, we might 
accept simple clean patches written by Someone Else, patches that don't 
affect other platforms.

In the meantime I'm closing the sed bug report as this is not really a 
sed issue.