Documentation date stuck on "5th April 2006"

[martineau]

BPO	1476216
Nosy	@akuchling

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[martineau]

My builds of the python documentation from the SVN
trunk have been stuck on "5th April 2006" for several
weeks now.

I've traced this to r43589, which hard-coded the date
in boilerplate.tex - this seems unusual, because
boilerplate.tex was not modified in this way for any
previous releases.

Seems like "\date{5th April 2006}" should be changed
back to "\date{\today}".

For some reason, the documentation at
http://docs.python.org/dev/ shows the correct date.

Mat

[akuchling]

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This change was made for the 2.5alpha1 release. Undoing the
change probably just slipped the release manager's mind.
The freeze for alpha2 is very soon, so this will probably
get fixed after alpha2 is out.

[akuchling]

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Now that 2.5alpha2 is out, I've reverted boilerplate.tex to
use the current date.