Package: nickle
Version: 2.97+b1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch, upstream
The man page "nickle(1)" contains a residual template variable that seems to
have missed its substitution:
$ man nickle | tail -n1
@RELEASE_DATE@ NICKLE(1)
$ nickle -e version
"2.97"
It appears this might be the case at least as far back as version 2.91 in
debian "bookworm".
The problem appears to be in upstream. Specifically, commit
74e92c3ff8b3b8478d44ee5e9b1f0fc75283fd88, which switched from `BUILD_DATE` in
configure.ac and nickle.1.in. This commit failed to update the substitution
that is performed in Makefile.am. The attached patch fixes this and also
inserts the package version into the page footer. The patch is also included
inline here:
>From 95ff7e9de4ed815e060b1df59b5b2b105307e0d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Bavier <bav...@posteo.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:34:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes substitution of REALEASE_DATE in nickle.1
* Makefile.am (nickle.1): 'BUILD_DATE' -> 'RELEASE_DATE'.
* nickle.1.in: Include version in footer.
---
Makefile.am | 2 +-
nickle.1.in | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ba28ec9..5ed56a3 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ RELEASE_FILES = $(TARFILE) $(SIGFILE) $(SRPMFILE)
$(RPMFILE)
nickle.1: nickle.1.in nickle-config.h
sed -e 's,@''VERSION@,$(VERSION),' \
- -e 's,@''BUILD_DATE@,$(BUILD_DATE),' \
+ -e 's,@''RELEASE_DATE@,$(RELEASE_DATE),' \
-e 's,@''pkgdatadir@,$(pkgdatadir),' $(top_srcdir)/nickle.1.in >
$@
nickle.spec: nickle.spec.in nickle-config.h
diff --git a/nickle.1.in b/nickle.1.in
index 4871ac2..1ab9e08 100644
--- a/nickle.1.in
+++ b/nickle.1.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH NICKLE 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@"
+.TH NICKLE 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@" "nickle @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
nickle \- a desk calculator language
.SH SYNOPSIS
--
2.41.0
From 95ff7e9de4ed815e060b1df59b5b2b105307e0d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Bavier <bav...@posteo.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:34:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes substitution of REALEASE_DATE in nickle.1
* Makefile.am (nickle.1): 'BUILD_DATE' -> 'RELEASE_DATE'.
* nickle.1.in: Include version in footer.
---
Makefile.am | 2 +-
nickle.1.in | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ba28ec9..5ed56a3 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ RELEASE_FILES = $(TARFILE) $(SIGFILE) $(SRPMFILE) $(RPMFILE)
nickle.1: nickle.1.in nickle-config.h
sed -e 's,@''VERSION@,$(VERSION),' \
- -e 's,@''BUILD_DATE@,$(BUILD_DATE),' \
+ -e 's,@''RELEASE_DATE@,$(RELEASE_DATE),' \
-e 's,@''pkgdatadir@,$(pkgdatadir),' $(top_srcdir)/nickle.1.in > $@
nickle.spec: nickle.spec.in nickle-config.h
diff --git a/nickle.1.in b/nickle.1.in
index 4871ac2..1ab9e08 100644
--- a/nickle.1.in
+++ b/nickle.1.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH NICKLE 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@"
+.TH NICKLE 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@" "nickle @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
nickle \- a desk calculator language
.SH SYNOPSIS
--
2.41.0
