l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> skribis: >>> >>>> Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>>> The man page version in Guix 0.12.0 tarball[0] is outdated. When running >>>>> >>>>> $ man guix >>>>> >>>>> the name of the man page is >>>>> >>>>> guix - manual page for guix 0.11.0 >>>>> >>>>> I think it was forgotten to be updated during the 0.12.0 release. >>>>> >>>>> [0]: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.12.0.tar.gz >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think we should add the generated man pages to the >>>> MAINTAINERCLEANFILES Automake variable and document the release process >>>> in a "README-release" file which should contain running 'make >>>> maintainer-clean'. >>> >>> The process is currently documented here: >>> >>> >>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/doc/release.org >> >> Oops I have overlooked that. >> >>> Would it work to have ‘distcheck’ depend on ‘maintainer-clean’? That >>> would be even better. >> >> Unfornately 'maintainer-clean' is removing the current Makefile so it >> can't be used as a prerequisite. >> >> I guess we can't do better that just adding a step for 'make >> maintainer-clean' before 'make distcheck' in the release documentation. > > OK, makes sense. Could you add it?
Now that I think of it, could it be that Ricardo didn’t have help2man installed when building the tarball? Man pages get rebuilt anytime it’s needed here. Thanks, Ludo’.
