On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 04:47:23PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > I'm retitling this bug. Debian Policy 4.7.4 now has minimal > documentation of DEB_BUILD_PROFILES. It only specifically describes > nocheck and noinsttest. > > Since nodoc is mentioned in the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS section, I think > it's important that Debian Policy be clear about how to use nodoc. > Debian Policy provides some examples of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and > DEB_BUILD_PROFILES but it's missing a nodoc example.
More to the point: Several months ago I made the experiment of building the archive with the nodoc build profile, with the intention of reporting bugs (with whatever severity would be appropriate). The problem: I found more than 950 packages which FTBFS with nodoc profile. For the curious: https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/nodoc-20251010/ Because I expected a lot less, I never announced any MBF anywhere. Now I wonder if this nodoc profile is something that every package is supposed to support, or maybe it would make sense to have some opt-out or opt-in mechanism, like a field in debian/control, to indicate whether or not the nodoc build is supported for such package. [ In my opinion, with current tools, forcing all packages to support nodoc would be overkill ] Thanks.
