Bug#1033509: manpages.debian.org: testing/polkitd/polkit.8.en.html has outdated content

"Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
Message-ID <cecb68fd990e9d23bda47372acbec62ef1295bc8.camel__20694.6882813767$1735320091$gmane$org@adam-barratt.org.uk>
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/181

On Sun, 2023-03-26 at 14:45 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> This might well have the same root cause as #986030, but I'm
> reporting it as a separate bug because I want to link to bookworm's
> polkit(8) in text that I'm contributing to the bookworm release
> notes, and the HTML currently displayed for that version is
> misleading.

I believe they're likely to have the same cause, referenced in the
Github issue above.

> 2. The sidebar and footer claim that the man page is from
> polkitd_122-2
>    (even though unstable is now at 122-3), but the HTML content is
> the
>    old 2009 version (same as bullseye).
>    - The text content of
> https://manpages.debian.org/testing/polkitd/polkit.8.en.gz
>      *is* the correct 2021 version, though. Perhaps the generated
> HTML was cached and needs some cache invalidation to be regenerated?

This sounds like one of the problems mentioned in the Github issue,
specifically "However, during my investigation I realized that we
incorrectly store a reference to the version of the current package,
even when incorrectly re-using older content".

Regards,

Adam
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