Package: man-db
Version: 2.6.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Hey there
I've seen this while installing build-deps in chroots for years:
Building database of manual pages ...
and that's likely because I am too lazy to set man-db/auto-update
properly. Pbuilder offers an optin hook to do this, and I'm sure this
could be done in other software, but it turns out most build software
doesn't bother with this. I checked random buildd logs of qemu and
qemu-linaro in Debian and Ubuntu and found:
Setting up man-db (2.6.0.2-1) ...
Building database of manual pages ...
this is particularly common because debhelper depends on man-db (as
dh_installman calls man it seems); lintian also depends on man-db, but
this is likely less of an issue on buildds.
In the interest of saving buildd time without anyone having to set
man-db/auto-update, I propose that we split the tools and the trigger /
database handling in separate packages so that debhelper/lintian just
depend on the tools, not on the presence of a database.
NB: this is particularly bad on ports architectures where it often
takes minutes to generate the DB for some reason
Cheers,
--
Loïc Minier
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