Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?
Am Freitag, den 20.07.2007, 11:37 +0200 schrieb David Paleino:
> 2007/7/20, Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Discussing with Nelson, the co-maintainer of emboss, we were wondering
> > if this mass-building was a bit a waste of buildd time since they are
> > all the same for all arches, and if we could build them offline and ship
> > them in the diff instead. What is your opinion of this? Or maybe
> > shipping them in an arch: all package would help reducing the load on
> > the weaker buildds ?
>
> I think that they could be put into emboss-doc, or similar (I don't
> actually remember whether emboss-doc already exists or not, in that
> case, you/we could also think of something like emboss-manpages to
> Depend: on).
This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading "[..] Each
program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page
included in the same package. [..]".
Regards, Daniel
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