Subject: bug#25976: man page version is outdated in Guix 0.12.0 tarball

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:18:42 +0100

Hi,

Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Alex Vong <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> The man page version in Guix 0.12.0 tarball[0] is outdated. When running
>>
>>     $ man guix
>>
>> the name of the man page is
>>
>>     guix - manual page for guix 0.11.0
>>
>> I think it was forgotten to be updated during the 0.12.0 release.
>>
>> [0]: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.12.0.tar.gz
>>
>
> I think we should add the generated man pages to the
> MAINTAINERCLEANFILES Automake variable and document the release process
> in a "README-release" file which should contain running 'make
> maintainer-clean'.

The process is currently documented here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/release.org

Would it work to have ‘distcheck’ depend on ‘maintainer-clean’?  That
would be even better.

Thanks,
Ludo’.