[RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:17:26AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt
> > before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD
> > 12.
> >
> > GNU rcs is a GPLv2 software with newer version being GPLv3 preventing any
> > updates/fixes.
> >
> > From previous discussions there were issues that has been raised in previous
> > attempts:
> > - ident(1) is still useful given we still have Keywords in our sources. It has
> >   been replaced by a BSD Licensed version (enhanced to improve compatibility
> >   with Subversion Keyword) for FreeBSD 11. So that tool will remain in base
> >   after removal of GNU rcs.
> 
> So no affect.
> 
> > - etc-update uses merge(1) from GNU rcs, this has been changed in head to use
> >   diff3 instead.
> 
> Also no effect. Is our diff3 still the gpl'd one, or has bsd-diff
> finally grown that functionality?

Not yet bsd diff and bsd diff3 are very far from mature, however the sdiff(1)
part has landed as I have finished it. I still have plans for other diff
components.

Best regards,
Bapt
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