Documentation for some home services disappeared from 1.4 manual

Hello,

I noticed some help nodes under https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/Home-Services.htmldisappeared fairly recently.

They are still available in the devel docs under https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Home-Services.html

The following topics are missing:

This makes sense when looking at the 1.4.0 git tag, but I had a browser tab open, and https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Mail-Home-Services.htmlwas definitely available just a day or two ago.

I don't know if this is actually an issue or an intended change, but it seemed better to report it than to ignore it.

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 08:16, nils@landt.email wrote:

I am sorry, I am not sure to understand what the bug is about. :-)

This webpage

https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/html_node/Home-Services.html points

to the manual as it was for the last release. It means, this manual

wepage is frozen and is only updated at each release. If you have seen

something different, it is an artifact that should not be possible.

For instance, the service

* GPG: GNU Privacy Guard. Setting up GPG and related tools.

had been added on Sat Apr 8 22:56:19 2023 +0200 which is after the

release 1.4.0.

There is no bug and I am favor to close it. WDYT?

Cheers,

simon

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If this is intended and expected, then feel free to close it, sure.

But it's certainly changed behaviour. I had https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Mail-Home-Services.htmlopen in a browser tab for more than a month, and on 2023-08-23 it was suddenly 404 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Note: I just searched for "guix search-input-file" on duckduckgo (and startpage / google to doublecheck) and the second hit was pointing to https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/File-Search-Services.htmlwhich is 404. https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/File-Search-Services.html works.

So it appears the manual was wrong (=showing the "latest" version instead of 1.4.0) long enough to be indexed by search engines.

Of course this does not really change anything, if the current manual is correct then let's close this bug report!

Hi,

On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 at 09:41, nils@landt.email wrote:

This webpage currently works. So you have probably seen a transient

issue.

Cheers,

simon

Hi,

On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 at 13:16, nils@landt.email wrote:

This webpage currently works for me.

Well, I am closing since it is probably a transient issue. Feel free to

reopen if you have similar troubles.

Cheers,

simon