Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > I think that it is a good idea. Here is a draft patch.
> When writing this patch, I became unsure if “*-doc” packages are the > best description for the binary packages that will not be built. Should > it be any package in the “documentation” section instead ? Or should it > be kept vague to give flexibility to the maintainer to do the right > thing ? I opted for this choice and wrote “packages containing the > generated documentation”. This is somewhat ambiguous about things like copyright and changelog, which might be considered part of the documentation (since they're in /usr/share/doc). How about this: > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -2256,6 +2256,11 @@ zope. > This tag says to not run any build-time test suite > provided by the package. > </item> > + <tag>nodoc</tag> > + <item> > + Do not build the documentation and do not build the binary > + packages containing the generated documentation. > + </item> > <tag>noopt</tag> > <item> > The presence of this tag means that the package should This tag says not to build any separate binary packages that contain only documentation, and ideally to skip any time- or resource-consuming build steps that only generate documentation. Examples include Doxygen-generated documentation, generation of info pages from Texinfo source, or generation of PDF files from TeX documents. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org