2.37 tarballs have empty manual pages

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 10:22:10 GMT 2021


Hi Matthias,

> something got wrong when generating the 2.37 tarballs, all manual pages are
> included, but have a size of 0 bytes.

Yes, this was an unfortunate mistake.  The problem has been reported and fixed in PR 28144.

> Maybe add a check in the build scripts that these pages are preoperly included
> in the tarballs?

I have not done that, but I have added an instruction to the how-to-make-a-release
document to test the tarballs for this problem before they are uploaded.

Cheers
   Nick




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