Re: doc compilations: build-time or pre-built?

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Junichi Uekawa 

| Another aspect is maintenance cost. Auto* tools and docbook toolchain,
| and tex toolchain may break, which means packages no longer
| build. This, I believe, shouldn't really be considered a reason not to
| build-depend; because it will be the users who will suffer from a
| broken package that doesn't really build.

If you need to change, say, configure.ac and nobody has tried
generating configure from it using the tools in the archive, this can
be a serious problem when doing a security upload.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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