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by mrguyorama 620 days ago
If your build pipeline depends on "man -w" and you don't work on man, the easter egg wasn't the problem.
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I guess you could have an integration test that validates that your installer puts the man pages in a directory that man searches in? It's a bit far-fetched but also not entirely outlandish.
Agreed. I'm really trying but failing to come up with a non-screwed-up scenario where this Easter egg legitimately breaks a well-planned testing suite.