GNU bug report logs - #41009
Add release date to the title page of Emacs manual (PDF)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Urban <mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 20:20:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 41009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, mrsebastianurban <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#41009: Add release date to the title page of Emacs manual
 (PDF)
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 22:49:14 -0400

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > @today is just the date someone runs TeX. It has no significance as to
  > (eg) when content was last updated.

The goal of reproducible builds argues for NOT using @today.

(Please, let's not refer to text that we have worked hard on
as "content".  See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content.)


-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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