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Bug 1268310

Summary: man page contains $Date$ instead of actual date
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Martin Frodl <mfrodl>
Component: pythonAssignee: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Branislav Náter <bnater>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.1CC: bnater, cstratak, isenfeld, jberan, pviktori
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: EasyFix, Patch
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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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: 1355805 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-03 20:15:04 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1289025    

Description Martin Frodl 2015-10-02 13:34:49 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Martin Frodl 2015-10-02 13:41:25 UTC 
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)
Comment 3 Charalampos Stratakis 2016-03-17 15:52:55 UTC 
It is reported upstream
https://bugs.python.org/issue17167

The issue also exists for Fedora 23, 24 and rawhide for all Python versions.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 20:15:04 UTC 
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