GNU bug report logs - #28241
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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: "'bug-guix\@gnu.org'" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:59:47 +0200

The compressed man page at “share/man/man1/R.1.gz” provided by r-minimal
contains a time-dependent string.

Comparing the uncompressed man pages built at different times on
different machines shows me this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff /tmp/berlin/share/man/man1/R.1  /tmp/hydra/share/man/man1/R.1
2c2
< .TH R "1" "July 2017" "R 3.4.0" FSF
---
> .TH R "1" "May 2017" "R 3.4.0" FSF
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The man page is created with a rule in “doc/Makefile.in”:

     @$(HELP2MAN) --include=$(srcdir)/R.aux --no-info --output=R.1 \
       --name="a language for data analysis and graphics" \
       $(top_builddir)/bin/R

“doc/R.aux” does not contain a timestamp, nor does the help output of R
itself.  Is help2man to blame here?

--
Ricardo

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