[debbugs-tracker] bug#28241: closed (man page in r-minimal contains timestamp)

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> man page in r-minimal contains timestamp
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> Sat, 26 Aug 2017 14:59:47 +0200
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> mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1
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> The compressed man page at “share/man/man1/R.1.gz” provided by r-minimal
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> Comparing the uncompressed man pages built at different times on
> different machines shows me this:
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> --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
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> > .TH R "1" "May 2017" "R 3.4.0" FSF
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> The man page is created with a rule in “doc/Makefile.in”:
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>      @$(HELP2MAN) --include=$(srcdir)/R.aux --no-info --output=R.1 \
>        --name="a language for data analysis and graphics" \
>        $(top_builddir)/bin/R
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> “doc/R.aux” does not contain a timestamp, nor does the help output of R
> itself.  Is help2man to blame here?
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> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> 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.
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> >> Where is this lost?
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> > Simple: R simply doesn’t use our help2man.  It comes with
> > tools/help2man.pl, which does not respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.
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> > Overwriting the HELP2MAN variable causes the tests to fail, so I need to
> > investigate how these versions differ.
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> This is now fixed with commit 174fbd5f3b2f286cf06e58787853db6b8f0f5b35.
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