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Bug 779704 - pango should fail distcheck if pango-view.1.in failed to generate properly (no help2man install on release machine)
pango should fail distcheck if pango-view.1.in failed to generate properly (n...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: pango-view
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-03-07 13:43 UTC by Mart Raudsepp
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:21 UTC
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Description Mart Raudsepp 2017-03-07 13:43:29 UTC 
pango-1.40.4 release is missing proper content for the pango-view manual page, just like before in some earlier releases, e.g bug 731479.
It would probably be good if distcheck would check for this somehow, so official releases don't get pushed out with accidental help2man tool missing from the release tarball creating machine, which would be simple to fix by somehow getting to know this fact before pushing the tarball out.
However for building from git for development, that seems to be considered an unnecessary dependency, as pango-view/Makefile.am specifically avoids erroring out if it's missing and just outputs instead:

help2man is required to generate this file.

which then gets installed from a release tarball as well if this fact was missed in distcheck.
Comment 1 Brendan L 2018-04-26 00:14:42 UTC 
This is also an issue in the meson build.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:21:44 UTC 
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