Replace the whole section about configuring pine with
no-strip-whitespace-before-send with a note that users should use
another MUA instead.
There hasn't been a release of Pine since late 2005, in Alpine the
no-strip-whitespace-before-send switch is already the default.
This documentation was initially added in 9740d289ee7 (Update
SubmittingPatches to add MUA specific notes., 2005-08-26). At this
point it's safe to say that it's not useful to anyone anymore, let's
remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 54 ++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index e372d17673..9c859dcfef 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -501,58 +501,8 @@ commit message.
=== Pine
-(Johannes Schindelin)
-
-....
-I don't know how many people still use pine, but for those poor
-souls it may be good to mention that the quell-flowed-text is
-needed for recent versions.
-
-... the "no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, too. AFAIK it
-was introduced in 4.60.
-....
-
-(Linus Torvalds)
-
-....
-And 4.58 needs at least this.
-
-diff-tree 8326dd8350be64ac7fc805f6563a1d61ad10d32c (from e886a61f76edf5410573e92e38ce22974f9c40f1)
-Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxx>
-Date: Mon Aug 15 17:23:51 2005 -0700
-
- Fix pine whitespace-corruption bug
-
- There's no excuse for unconditionally removing whitespace from
- the pico buffers on close.
-
-diff --git a/pico/pico.c b/pico/pico.c
---- a/pico/pico.c
-+++ b/pico/pico.c
-@@ -219,7 +219,9 @@ PICO *pm;
- switch(pico_all_done){ /* prepare for/handle final events */
- case COMP_EXIT : /* already confirmed */
- packheader();
-+#if 0
- stripwhitespace();
-+#endif
- c |= COMP_EXIT;
- break;
-....
-
-(Daniel Barkalow)
-
-....
-> A patch to SubmittingPatches, MUA specific help section for
-> users of Pine 4.63 would be very much appreciated.
-
-Ah, it looks like a recent version changed the default behavior to do the
-right thing, and inverted the sense of the configuration option. (Either
-that or Gentoo did it.) So you need to set the
-"no-strip-whitespace-before-send" option, unless the option you have is
-"strip-whitespace-before-send", in which case you should avoid checking
-it.
-....
+Abandoned by its uptsream and has known flowed text bugs, use its
+successor alpine or another MUA instead.
=== Thunderbird, KMail, GMail
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