Mark kermit.el as obsolete

While Kermit is still developed, this Emacs support library is
essentially unchanged since it was added to Emacs, which seems to have
been in 1988.  It is also based on the old pre-Emacs 20 shell mode, so
it's not clear if it even works, and much less if it is relevant with
Kermit from this century.

There is also this modern alternative, from 1994, which seems far
more complete: https://www.kermitproject.org/archive.html#emacs

The bug tracker has stayed silent, so if anyone is still using it, they
will have to report a bug and ask us to unobsolete it.

* lisp/obsolete/kermit.el: Add Obsolete-since header.  Add link to
alternative library at kermitproject.org.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 8ff318b5004..4d9e94113ac 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1279,6 +1279,11 @@ Major-mode authors can customize the variables
 'yank-media-autoselect-function' and/or 'yank-media-preferred-types' to
 change the selection rules.
 
+** Miscellaneous
+
+---
+*** kermit.el is now obsolete.
+
 
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 31.1
 
diff --git a/lisp/obsolete/kermit.el b/lisp/obsolete/kermit.el
index 5a3d4efb22b..0413c57b9aa 100644
--- a/lisp/obsolete/kermit.el
+++ b/lisp/obsolete/kermit.el
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
 ;; Created: 15 Feb 1988
 ;; Keywords: comm
+;; Obsolete-since: 31.1
 
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
@@ -24,6 +25,15 @@
 
 ;;; Commentary:
 
+;; This library is obsolete.
+;;
+;; If you are looking for Kermit support in Emacs, you might want to
+;; take a look here instead:
+;;
+;;     https://www.kermitproject.org/archive.html#emacs
+
+;; ---
+
 ;; I'm not sure, but I think somebody asked about running kermit under shell
 ;; mode a while ago.  Anyway, here is some code that I find useful.  The result
 ;; is that I can log onto machines with primitive operating systems (VMS and