From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:59:47 +0200 Message-ID: <878ti6v60s.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37959) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlai1-00078S-71 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:01:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlahy-0007Me-5V for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:01:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:47451) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlahy-0007MV-2K for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:01:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dlahx-0003kf-OL for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 09:01:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlagw-0006vZ-Kv for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:59:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlagt-00072P-Jz for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:59:58 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dlagt-000725-EI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:59:55 -0400 List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 28241@debbugs.gnu.org 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 GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net