From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sun Mar 05 10:47:59 2017 Received: (at 25976) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Mar 2017 15:47:59 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41130 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ckYO7-0006Jc-5s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:47:59 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52504) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ckYO6-0006JP-5E for 25976@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:47:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckYNz-0004wq-Vr for 25976@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:47:52 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckYNz-0004wk-Sc; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:47:51 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e35:2ec2:e580:4a5d:60ff:fe57:52cd] (port=53024 helo=godel) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ckYNz-00089g-4U; Sun, 05 Mar 2017 10:47:51 -0500 From: Mathieu Lirzin To: Alex Vong Subject: Re: bug#25976: man page version is outdated in Guix 0.12.0 tarball In-Reply-To: <87wpc37oi5.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Vong's message of "Sun, 05 Mar 2017 23:05:22 +0800") References: <87wpc37oi5.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 16:47:48 +0100 Message-ID: <877f43913v.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 25976 Cc: 25976@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) Hi Alex, Alex Vong 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 The man page version in Guix 0.12.0 tarball[0] is outdated.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'. There is one in Gnulib that could serve as a template: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=top/README-release;h=17f026a2c70de984450e2c662535d991e0d0a0b6;hb=HEAD I would recommend not distributing it in the tarball however. Documenting the release process will hopefully help not missing some step. Thanks for the report. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37