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man page in r-minimal contains timestamp

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 28241 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 02:46:17 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> writes:

> Is SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH not set at the time help2man runs?  “r-minimal”
> uses the gnu-build-system, which has a build phase set-SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH
> that sets SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to 1.
>
> Where is this lost?

Simple: R simply doesn’t use our help2man.  It comes with
tools/help2man.pl, which does not respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.

Overwriting the HELP2MAN variable causes the tests to fail, so I need to
investigate how these versions differ.

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Ricardo

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