patches: Remove file

This info is already in the CONTRIBUTING file.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

12 files changed, 4 insertions, 399 deletions

diff --git a/code_of_conduct.html b/code_of_conduct.html
index 5d78a74..1f4740a 100644
--- a/code_of_conduct.html
+++ b/code_of_conduct.html
@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ Linux man-pages Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
 
 Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
-contributing | 
+<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/download.html b/download.html
index c4a7874..3cbaeaf 100644
--- a/download.html
+++ b/download.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 download
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 482a700..84ebb32 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 home | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
@@ -109,8 +108,6 @@ home |
   &nbsp; | &nbsp; 
   <a href="reporting_bugs.html">Reporting bugs</a>
   &nbsp; | &nbsp; 
-  <a href="patches.html">Submitting patches</a>
-  &nbsp; | &nbsp; 
   <a href="missing_pages.html">Missing pages</a>
 </p>
 
diff --git a/linux-api-ml.html b/linux-api-ml.html
index 17166b5..eefcf81 100644
--- a/linux-api-ml.html
+++ b/linux-api-ml.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/linux-man-ml.html b/linux-man-ml.html
index d02d952..59fb1f1 100644
--- a/linux-man-ml.html
+++ b/linux-man-ml.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/linux-next.html b/linux-next.html
index e402457..86c2d9a 100644
--- a/linux-next.html
+++ b/linux-next.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/maintaining.html b/maintaining.html
index 8723016..0ce39ca 100644
--- a/maintaining.html
+++ b/maintaining.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/man_pages_other.html b/man_pages_other.html
index 563dfc9..94b4702 100644
--- a/man_pages_other.html
+++ b/man_pages_other.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
diff --git a/missing_pages.html b/missing_pages.html
index f65b13a..16cd772 100644
--- a/missing_pages.html
+++ b/missing_pages.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
@@ -109,8 +108,8 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 </li>
   
 <li>
-    Submit the page following the project guidelines for
-    <a href="patches.html">submitting patches</a>.
+    Submit the page following
+    <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">the project guidelines for submitting patches</a>.
     Be sure to CC any other interested parties,
     including any people that you know of who might
     be suitable reviewers for the page.
diff --git a/patches.html b/patches.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a076eb..0000000
--- a/patches.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,382 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
-        "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
-<html>
-<head>
-<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
-<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="style.css" title="style">
-<title>
-Patches for man-pages
-</title>
-</head>
-
-<body>
-
-<!--BEGIN-LINKS-->
-<form method="get" action="https://www.google.com/search">
-<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%">
-<tr>
-<td align="left">
-<font size="-1">
-
-Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
-<a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
-<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
-<a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-patches | 
-<a href="./download.html">download</a>
-&nbsp; || &nbsp; 
-<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
-<a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/index.html">online pages</a></font>
-</td>
-<td align="right">
-<input type="text" name="q" size=10 maxlength=255 value="">
-<input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="man7.org/linux/man-pages">
-<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search online pages">
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-</form>
-<!--END-LINKS-->
-
-
-<h1>Patches for <em>man-pages</em></h1>
-
-<p>
-  If you know how to fix a problem in a manual page (if not, look
-  <a href="reporting_bugs.html">here</a>), then send a patch,
-  and <strong>make sure that you</strong>:
-</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>
-        Put <span class="email">linux-man@vger.kernel.org</span>
-	into "To:" or "CC:"
-      (<a href="linux-man-ml.html"><em>no HTML mail please</em></a>),
-    </li>
-    <li>
-        Include the string "[patch]" in the subject line
-    </li>
-    <li>
-        Include either or both comaintainers
-        (Alejandro Colomar <span class="email">&lt;alx.manpages@gmail.com&gt;</span>
-	and
-        Michael Kerrisk <span class="email">&lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;</span>)
-	in "To:" or "CC:".
-	(Please do <strong>not</strong> CC mtk's
-	<span class="email">@man7.org</span> email address.)
-    </li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<p>
-  <strong>The above is the minimum needed so that someone
-  might respond to your patch.</strong>
-  (If you did that, and someone does not respond within a few days,
-  then ping the mail thread, "replying to all".)
-</p>
-<p>
-  <strong>To make your patch even more useful</strong>,
-  please note the following points:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-  <li>
-    <strong>Make sure that the mail has a suitable <em>Subject</em>
-    line</strong>
-    (i.e., one that mentions the name(s) of the page(s) being patched).
-    <!--
-    Don't put the
-    <em>man-pages</em>
-    version in the subject line (it should
-    already be in the body, and cluttering the subject line with a version
-    number does not help me when filing messages...).
-    -->
-    A suitable subject line might be something like:
-<pre>
-    [patch] shmop.2: Add "(void *)" cast to RETURN VALUE </pre>
-  </li>
-  <li>
-    For nontrivial patches, it is helpful if you add a
-    <span class="const">Signed-off-by:</span>
-    tag to certify that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the
-    right to pass it on as an open-source patch.
-    Such a tag is added near the end of the commit message, and has the form:
-    </br>
-    </br>
-    <span class="const">Signed-off-by: Firstname Lastname &lt;your-email-address&gt;</span>
-    </br>
-    </br>
-    For details, see the section on the "Developer's Certificate of Origin" in the file
-    <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst"><span class="pathname">Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst</span></a>
-    in the Linux kernel source tree.
-    Where appropriate, other tags documented in that file, such as
-    <span class="const">Reported-by:</span>,
-    <span class="const">Reviewed-by:</span>,
-    <span class="const">Acked-by:</span>,
-    and
-    <span class="const">Suggested-by:</span>
-    can be added to the patch.
-    The
-    <em>man-pages</em> project also uses a
-    <span class="const">Cowritten-by:</span>
-    tag with the obvious meaning.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-  </li>
-  <li>
-      <strong>PLEASE NOTE</strong>: for <strong>nontrivial patches</strong>,
-      you can save the maintainers a <em>lot</em> of time by attending
-      to the following:
-      <br>
-      <br>
-  </li>
-  <ul>
-      <li>
-          <strong>Describe how you obtained the information in your patch</strong>.
-          For example, was it:
-      <ul>
-      <li>
-          by reading (or writing) the relevant kernel or (g)libc source code?
-          (please provide a pointer to the relevant code)
-      </li>
-      <li>
-          from a commit message in the kernel or (g)libc
-          source code repository?
-          (please provide a commit ID)
-      </li>
-      <li>
-          by writing a test program?
-          (send it with the patch, but please make sure it is as simple
-          as possible,
-          and provide instructions on how to use and/or a demo run)
-      </li>
-      <li>
-          from a standards document?
-          (please name the standard and quote the relevant text)
-      </li>
-      <li>
-          from other documentation?
-          (please provide a pointer to that documentation)
-      </li>
-      <li>
-          from a mailing list or online forum?
-          (please provide a URL if possible)
-      </li>
-      </ul>
-      The more information that you can provide, the easier you make it
-      for the maintainers and others to review your patch.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-    
-    <li>
-      Where relevant, include source code comments that
-      <strong>cite commit hashes</strong> for relevant kernel or glibc changes:
-  <pre>
-      .\" commit <40-character-git-hash></pre>
-      Doing so can be useful to help verify details of the patch,
-      or for later historical reference.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-  
-    <li>
-      <strong>Please CC relevant developers.</strong>
-      If your patch documents a substantial feature or change, and you
-      know which developers added the feature or made the change
-      that your patch documents, please CC them on the patch;
-      with luck they may review and fix your patch.
-      If you don't know who the developers are, you may be
-      able to discover that information from mailing list archives
-      or from Git logs or logs in other version control systems.
-      Obviously, if you are the developer of the feature being documented
-      in a <em>man-pages</em> patch, please identify yourself as such.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-
-    <li>
-      <strong>Please CC relevant mailing lists</strong>.
-      If your patch documents a substantial feature or change, please
-      consider CCing relevant mailing lists on your patch.
-      With luck, subscribers on the mailing list might review your patch.
-      Relevant mailing lists may include:
-      <br>
-      <br>
-      <ul>
-      <li>
-        <span class="email">linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org</span> for patches to system call pages 
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <span class="email">netdev@vger.kernel.org</span> for patches to pages relating to networking and sockets
-      </li>
-      </ul>
-      <br>
-      The GNU C library developers
-      don't consider
-      <em>man-pages</em> to
-      be official documentation for the library.
-      However, if you have a new page for Section 3 or a substantial addition
-      to one of those pages, you might consider CCing
-      <span class="email">libc-alpha@sourceware.org</span>;
-      there are some friendly folk there who may review or comment.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-
-  <li>
-    For <strong>trivial patches</strong>,
-    the project uses a number of keywords that are processed by
-    scripts that automatically build the release changelogs.
-    Please employ the following in the patch subject line,
-    where appropriate:
-    <br />
-    <br />
-    <ul>
-      <li>
-        <strong>ffix</strong>: Formatting fix.
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <strong>wfix</strong>: Minor wording fix.
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <strong>tfix</strong>: Typo fix.
-      </li>
-      <li>
-        <strong>srcfix</strong>: Change to manual page source that
-	doesn't affect formatted output.
-      </li>
-    </ul>
-    <br />
-    Obviously, there's some overlap between the above cases;
-    just choose the one that you think fits best.
-    Using this scheme, a patch's subject line might look like:
-<pre>
-    [patch] tcp.7: tfix</pre>
-  </li>
-
-  <li>
-    <strong>Some general tips</strong> on how to make life easier
-    for the maintainers:
-      <br>
-      <br>
-  </li>
-  <ul>
-    <li>
-      <strong>Send logically separate patches</strong> (e.g., for unrelated pages,
-      or for logically separate issues in the same page)
-      as separate mails.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      <strong>Patches that contain correctly formatted
-      <em>groff</em> are preferred</strong>.
-      The basics of
-      <em>groff</em>
-      are pretty simple, and you can probably learn as much as you need
-      by just looking at the source of the page to be patched;
-      for more information, take a look at the
-      <span class="man-page"><a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man.7.html">groff_man(7)</a></span>,
-      <span class="man-page"><a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man_style.7.html">groff_man_style(7)</a></span>,
-      and
-      <span class="man-page"><a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html">man-pages(7)</a></span>
-      manual pages.
-      If you are uncertain of
-      <em>groff</em>,
-      then send a patch that uses some plain text.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-  
-    <li>
-      <strong>Make patches against the latest version of the manual page</strong>.
-      For information on downloading the latest tarball, or pulling from the 
-      <em>man-pages</em>
-      <a href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a> repository, see the
-      <a href="download.html">download</a> page.
-    
-      <blockquote>
-        If the manual page that you want to patch is not in the tarball or
-        Git repository,
-        that's because it comes from a package other than <em>man-pages</em>;
-        in that case, you should look
-        <a href="man_pages_other.html">here</a>.
-      </blockquote>
-    </li>
-    
-    <li>
-      <strong>Send patches in
-      <span class="cmd">diff -u</span>
-      format</strong>; inline inside the mail message
-      is usually best.
-      If you're worried about your mailer breaking the patch,
-      then send it both inline and as an attachment.
-      Since the
-      <em>man-pages</em>
-      project
-      uses Git, you may find it useful to employ
-      <span class="cmd">git-send-email</span>
-      or
-      <span class="cmd">git-format-patch</span>.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-  
-<!--
-  <li>
-    If editing a page, and you find one or two white spaces at the end
-    of an existing line, <strong>don't</strong> bother removing them.
-    The reason is that in a
-    <span class="cmd">diff -u</span>
-    patch this will make it look like there is a
-    change when in fact nothing has changed.
-    In most cases, these extra white spaces do no harm,
-    so just leave them be.
-  </li>
--->
-
-  <li>
-    Some <strong>things that you don't need to do</strong>:
-      <br>
-      <br>
-  </li>
-  <ul>
-    <li>
-      Don't try to patch the COLOPHON section of a page in
-      one of the release tarballs. That text is autogenerated
-      as part of the release process.
-      <br>
-      <br>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-      You don't need to update the page timestamp (".TH" line);
-      the project release scripts do that automatically.
-    </li>
-  </ul>
-
-</ul>
-
-<!--BEGIN-STATCOUNTER-->
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diff --git a/reporting_bugs.html b/reporting_bugs.html
index c1fd16b..ae2030e 100644
--- a/reporting_bugs.html
+++ b/reporting_bugs.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 bugs | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |
@@ -142,7 +141,7 @@ bugs |
     <li>
         For a more complex problem or error,
         if you know how to fix it, then, ideally,
-        <a href="patches.html">send a patch</a>.
+        <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">send a patch</a>.
         <br>
         <br>
     </li>
diff --git a/reporting_code_bugs.html b/reporting_code_bugs.html
index 4cbd49e..c8f82c1 100644
--- a/reporting_code_bugs.html
+++ b/reporting_code_bugs.html
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Linux <em>man-pages</em>: &nbsp;
 <a href="./index.html">home</a> | 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING">contributing</a> | 
 <a href="./reporting_bugs.html">bugs</a> | 
-<a href="./patches.html">patches</a> | 
 <a href="./download.html">download</a>
 &nbsp; || &nbsp; 
 <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git">git</a> |