Re: manpages.debian.org next update?

On Mon, 2024-12-23 at 01:09 -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I noticed that all pages at manpages.debian.org state in their footer
> that they were generated on October 21st.

Let me start by saying that this isn't in fact accurate - for example,
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/mercurial-common/index.html was
generated in November, and
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/mercurial-common/hg-verify.1.en.html
on December 1st.

It is, however, fair to say that many pages report a generation date of
October 21st and I believe one can find a likely reason using only
breadcrumbs from https://manpages.debian.org itself. The index page
links to both https://manpages.debian.org/about.html and
https://wiki.debian.org/manpages.debian.org , and each of those pages
in turn reference the use of https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/

The most recently reported issue in the Github repo is
https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/181 - "Testing version doesn't
sync with archive after migration", which sounds likely to be related.
Indeed, reading through the comments, a forced regeneration was
performed on October 21st, explaining why many pages were modified on
that date. The most recent public activity on that issue is also from
October, so I don't know if there's been any further progress towards a
solution.

Regards,

Adam
(not a manpages.d.o maintainer)