Docs: Remove the authors list from wireshark(1).

The AUTHORS section of wireshark(1) is about half the content of the man
page. While it's important to acknowledge the people who have
contributed to the project, the goal of the man page is to tell people
how to use Wireshark.

Replace the list of authors with text that acknowledges their
contributions along with pointers to the AUTHORS file and the list on
the main web site.

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 94 deletions

diff --git a/doc/CMakeLists.txt b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
index d495fa24cc..9a2f7782cc 100644
--- a/doc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/doc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,43 +18,8 @@ add_custom_command(
 		${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/AUTHORS
 )
 
-add_custom_command(
-	OUTPUT AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
-	COMMAND ${PERL_EXECUTABLE}
-		${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/make-authors-format.pl
-		< ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT
-		> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
-	DEPENDS
-		${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/make-authors-format.pl
-		${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT
-)
-
-if(WIN32)
-	file(TO_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/wireshark.pod.template WPT_WIN_PATH)
-	file(TO_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT ASF_WIN_PATH)
-	file(TO_NATIVE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/wireshark.pod WP_WIN_PATH)
-	add_custom_command(
-		OUTPUT wireshark.pod
-		COMMAND copy /B ${WPT_WIN_PATH} + ${ASF_WIN_PATH} ${WP_WIN_PATH}
-		DEPENDS
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/wireshark.pod.template
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
-	)
-else()
-	add_custom_command(
-		OUTPUT wireshark.pod
-		COMMAND cat
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/wireshark.pod.template
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
-			> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/wireshark.pod
-		DEPENDS
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/wireshark.pod.template
-			${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
-	)
-endif()
-
-pod2manhtml(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/wireshark   1)
 
+pod2manhtml(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/wireshark   1)
 pod2manhtml(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/androiddump 1)
 pod2manhtml(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/capinfos    1)
 pod2manhtml(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/captype     1)
@@ -203,7 +168,6 @@ add_custom_target(
 	docs ALL
 	DEPENDS
 		${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT
-		${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/AUTHORS-SHORT-FORMAT
 		${MAN1_INSTALL_FILES}
 		${MAN4_INSTALL_FILES}
 		${HTML_INSTALL_FILES}
diff --git a/doc/make-authors-format.pl b/doc/make-authors-format.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index 09a74df9ba..0000000000
--- a/doc/make-authors-format.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-# Convert AUTHORS-SHORT file for use in man page and HTML documentation
-# after processing through pod2man and pod2html.
-#
-# Copyright 2004 Graeme Hewson <ghewson@wormhole.me.uk>
-#
-# Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
-# By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
-# Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-#
-
-use strict;
-use open qw(:std :utf8);
-
-# This might not be necessary.
-print "=for html <style>div#authors pre, div#authors pre code { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style>\n\n";
-print "=for html <div id=authors>\n\n";
-
-print "=for man .nf\n\n";
-
-while (<>) {
-	printline();
-}
-
-print "\n=for html </div>\n";
-print "\n=for man .fi\n";
-
-sub printline {
-	my $line = shift || $_;
-
-	if ($line =~ /^=/) {
-		#
-		# Convert Asciidoctor-style headings to Pod.
-		#
-		$line =~ s/^= /=head2 /;
-		$line =~ s/\s*=+$//;
-		print $line;
-		return;
-	}
-
-	if ($line =~ /<\S+\[AT\]\S+>$/i or $line =~ /address removed.*\)/) {
-		# Make the author lists verbatim paragraphs.
-		$line = "    " . $line;
-	}
-
-	if ($line =~ /^and by:/) {
-		# This needs to be a regular paragraph.
-		$line = "\n" . $line;
-	}
-
-	print $line;
-}
diff --git a/doc/wireshark.pod.template b/doc/wireshark.pod
index ad098b5c5e..d1fecb5030 100644
--- a/doc/wireshark.pod.template
+++ b/doc/wireshark.pod
@@ -2952,6 +2952,12 @@ log domains and takes precedence over the active domains filter.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+Wireshark would not be the powerful, featureful application it is without the generous contributions of hundreds of developers.
+
+A complete list of authors can be found in the AUTHORS file in Wireshark's source code repository and at L<https://www.wireshark.org/about.html#authors>.
+
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 wireshark-filter(4), tshark(1), editcap(1), pcap(3), dumpcap(1), mergecap(1),
@@ -2964,7 +2970,3 @@ L<https://www.wireshark.org>.
 
 HTML versions of the Wireshark project man pages are available at:
 L<https://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages>.
-
-=head1 AUTHORS
-
-