On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 09:23:03 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
When GNOME libraries used gtk-doc for their API documentation, we
needed to have Build-Depends for dependent documentation (like gtk4
might need the glib docs installed)
...
check whether those extra
dependencies can be dropped for libraries that are now using
gi-docgen.
My understanding is that they can be dropped, because gi-docgen doesn't
parse installed documentation in this way, and I've gradually been doing
that as I get to it. (It is not a high priority.)
For packages that are already reproducible, the easy way to find out is
to build the package in a minimal environment (preferably sbuild), drop
the -doc B-D, and build it again. The resulting binary packages are
likely to be identical to the reference build.
smcv
