Re: dh: different dh option for -indep
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> MYDHMODS := $(shell if dh_listpackages | grep -q foo-doc ; \
>> then echo "--with autoreconf,sphinxdoc" ; \
>> else echo "--with autoreconf" ; fi)
[...]
> Nice trick! Still, this is a wrong optimization IMO. This complexifies the
> packaging for no important gain.
> It could be different if the package was one of those required to
> bootstrap a new architecture but for a random package, it's just easier
> and more maintainable to keep the sphinxdoc build-dep in Build-Depends.
Hello,
you might be right. I was shown the trick at Debconf, and used it for
breaking a gnutls bootstrap cycle.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. ;-)
cu Andreas
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