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[PATCH] Mark metamail.el as obsolete

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: 41388 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41388: [PATCH] Mark metamail.el as obsolete
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 20:46:51 -0700

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Severity: wishlist

The metamail package was last released in 1994, according to one source
below.  It seems to have been removed from most GNU/Linux distributions
a long time ago due to being buggy and unmaintained.

Removed from Redhat around 2004:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=152675

Removed from Debian around 2009:
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274451

Also see this opinion:
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59876940/linux-metamail-package-how-to-build#comment105884140_59876940

I suggest we mark our support for metamail as obsolete.  Users could use
it for a time until we remove it, but we should not encourage anyone to
do so.

Any objections?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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