Bug#1104854: binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, 1104854@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1104854: binNMUs can cause ma-same violations in eg manpages
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2025 11:07:59 -0700
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Reply-to: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>, 1104854@bugs.debian.org
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Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org> writes:

> Do tools handling man pages work without a date? I seem to recall trying
> this in the past and the man command spit out all sorts of errors...

Yes, you can suppress the date by passing an empty string into the
appropriate argument to .TH. You can see this behavior with:

    pod2man --date "" /usr/share/perl5/boolean.pod | nroff -man

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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