Bug 1268310
| Summary: | man page contains $Date$ instead of actual date | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Martin Frodl <mfrodl> | |
| Component: | python | Assignee: | Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Branislav Náter <bnater> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | bnater, cstratak, isenfeld, jberan, pviktori | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | EasyFix, Patch | |
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | |||
| OS: | Unspecified | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | python-2.7.5-39.el7 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Cause: Unexpanded macro at the man page footer
Consequence: Since the macro does not expand during build, instead of the actual date, the macro $Date$ is shown
Fix: Remove the macro
Result: Macro does not appear at the footer of the man page
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Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 1355805 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-11-03 20:15:04 UTC | Type: | Bug | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
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| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1289025 | |||
Just for reference, in python-2.6.6-64.el6.x86_64 on RHEL 6 the footer looks like this (which is probably the intended format):
$ man python | tail -1
$Date: 2010-01-31 11:09:16 -0500 (Sun, 31 Jan 2010) $ PYTHON(1)
It is reported upstream https://bugs.python.org/issue17167 The issue also exists for Fedora 23, 24 and rawhide for all Python versions. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2586.html |
Description of problem: On the python(1) man page, the footer contains the placeholder '$Date$' instead of an actual release date: $ man python | tail -1 $Date$ PYTHON(1) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-2.7.5-33.el7.x86_64