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and subject line Re: Bug#1041634: WIKI: the DebianDate wiki macro is not
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regarding WIKI: the DebianDate wiki macro is not working properly.
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Package: wiki.debian.orgX-Debbugs-CC:
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Hello, I want to report on the DebianDate macro of the Debian wiki not working
correctly.
The DebianDate macro <https://wiki.debian.org/HelpOnDebianMacros> is supposed
to return the release date of a supplied suite of Debian. But it returns the
release date of the stable version of Debian (12.0), no matter what the
argument is (stable, oldstable, oldoldstable).
Apparently this was first noticed by Thomas Chung when updating the wiki's
front page <https://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=info> in mid-june.
This macro helps having the release dates for different versions always
up-to-date, thus it is annoying, and error prone, to have to replace it by a
hardcoded date. Again see the wiki's front page for an example of that.
The source code of the macro is at a repository
<https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wiki.debian.org/-/tree/master/var/moin/data/plugin/macro/>
owned by PaulWise.
Just for the record, and to make crystal clear what the problem is, here is a
simple example of the error: edit any page of the wiki and paste the following
lines.
<<DebianDate(stable)>>, <<DebianDate(oldstable)>>, <<DebianDate(oldoldstable)>>
<<DebianCodename(stable)>>, <<DebianCodename(oldstable)>>,
<<DebianCodename(oldoldstable)>>
the output will be
2023-06-10, 2023-06-10, 2023-06-10
bookworm, bullseye, buster
Best regards.
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On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:22:19PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> The DebianDate macro <https://wiki.debian.org/HelpOnDebianMacros> is supposed
> to return the release date of a supplied suite of Debian. But it returns the
> release date of the stable version of Debian (12.0), no matter what the
> argument is (stable, oldstable, oldoldstable).
[..]
> Just for the record, and to make crystal clear what the problem is, here is a
> simple example of the error: edit any page of the wiki and paste the
> following lines.
>
> <<DebianDate(stable)>>, <<DebianDate(oldstable)>>,
> <<DebianDate(oldoldstable)>>
>
> <<DebianCodename(stable)>>, <<DebianCodename(oldstable)>>,
> <<DebianCodename(oldoldstable)>>
>
> the output will be
>
> 2023-06-10, 2023-06-10, 2023-06-10
> bookworm, bullseye, buster
Currently this produces:
2026-07-11, 2026-07-11, 2025-08-09
trixie, bookworm, bullseye
So presumably the problem was fixed in the meantime.
Closing this bug.
Thanks,
Chris
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