bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp

2017-08-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus 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 o

bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp

2017-08-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus 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/he

bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp

2017-08-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > 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, n

bug#28241: man page in r-minimal contains timestamp

2017-08-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
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/ma