> Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 23:22:36 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > >> We only build the user-docs nowadays, and that actually wouldn't be necessary if > >> Debian's build system did what the policy says: There is no need to re-build the > >> architecture independent stuff on each and every host, but the buildd software > >> does not yet properly use the build-arch target. If it did, we could get rid of > >> all the dependencies (the TeX stuff, doxygen and some others) that needn't get > >> installed and would spare the documentation building time. Bastian, if there is > >> some other nice way to work around the build-arch problem, please let me know. > >> > > build the docs in the binary-indep target instead of build. > > And make sure that build dependencies that are only needed for > binary-indep are in Build-Depends-Indep > Just to let everyone know (and with the hope that there is no disagreement with this): I plan to close this bug by fixing debian/rules and debian/control as suggested above, but I'm not going to do anything about the long test suite runs. Best, Michael
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