Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 14:58:24 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > > I don't think this is a policy violation: you're mixing up the nodoc > > build profile with the nodoc build option. > > Specifically, this is what I used in my

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 20:30:20 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:16:48PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > I don't think there is any benefit to anyone from empty -doc packages. > > What about packages that depend on -doc packages ? > They might become uninstallable. I can

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 14:16:48 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: >> This is technically a violation of Debian Policy 4.9.1 which has this wording >> "This option does not change the set of binary packages generated by >> the

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 14:16:48 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Source: debian-policy > Version: 4.1.1.1 > > I recently introduced support for nodoc for libgdamm5.0 in its > packaging branch (not uploaded to unstable yet) [1]. Since there is > only one arch-indep package, the -doc package, there

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:16:48PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Source: debian-policy > Version: 4.1.1.1 > > I recently introduced support for nodoc for libgdamm5.0 in its > packaging branch (not uploaded to unstable yet) [1]. Since there is > only one arch-indep package, the -doc package, there

Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages

2017-10-18 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Source: debian-policy Version: 4.1.1.1 I recently introduced support for nodoc for libgdamm5.0 in its packaging branch (not uploaded to unstable yet) [1]. Since there is only one arch-indep package, the -doc package, there are no packages built when an arch-indep build is attempted with the