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man page version is outdated in Guix 0.12.0 tarball

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Vong <alexvong1995 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25976: man page version is outdated in Guix 0.12.0 tarball
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:15:29 +0100

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Alex Vong <alexvong1995 <at> gmail.com> 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 The man page version in Guix 0.12.0 tarball[0] is outdated.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
>>
>> Oops I have overlooked that.
>>
>>> Would it work to have ‘distcheck’ depend on ‘maintainer-clean’?  That
>>> would be even better.
>>
>> Unfornately 'maintainer-clean' is removing the current Makefile so it
>> can't be used as a prerequisite.
>>
>> I guess we can't do better that just adding a step for 'make
>> maintainer-clean' before 'make distcheck' in the release documentation.
>
> OK, makes sense.  Could you add it?

Now that I think of it, could it be that Ricardo didn’t have help2man
installed when building the tarball?  Man pages get rebuilt anytime it’s
needed here.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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