I had a look at the idea of writing manpages manually (as upstream) and
unfortunately saw some difficulties: Because OpenBSD and Linux use
different *roff syntax, man vs. mdoc, if I understodd it correctly,
generating the man pages in the syntax of the actual operating system
would be the most portable way (everyone: correct me if I'm wrong). I
don't want to favor Linux or BSD or Windows (just kidding :) in the
source tarball.
Defining SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and using the latest help2man version did
_not_ fix the date on my system. Even worse: I'm also using doxygen for
the man page of the library, which isn't capable of using
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH anyway. So SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH doesn't seem to be the
right direction for me.
I'm thinking of rude stuff now: Patching the manpages after generation
with my own script, taking the date based on dpkg-parsechangelog as
input. Maybe it's possible with SED.
I can't be the first one facing this issues, right ? Thanks for the
excellent feedback so far.
Roelof
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