contrib: add bitcoin binary to gen-manpages
What the developer wrote
Authored by fanquake
contrib: add bitcoin binary to gen-manpages
What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply adds the 'bitcoin' binary to a developer script that automatically generates manual pages. It is a build/maintenance tooling change with no security relevance.
No security action required; treat as routine maintenance.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The patch modifies contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.py, appending ‘bin/bitcoin’ to the BINARIES list used to generate manpages. There is no code path change in the Bitcoin Core runtime, no privilege change, no input handling change, and no cryptographic change.
Changed components
contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.pyInspect captured patch +1 / −0
diff --git a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.py b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.py
index c7678817..12d16157 100755
--- a/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.py
+++ b/contrib/devtools/gen-manpages.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import tempfile
import argparse
BINARIES = [
+'bin/bitcoin',
'bin/bitcoind',
'bin/bitcoin-cli',
'bin/bitcoin-tx',
Why this scored 15/100
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