Bug#837319: Bug#837312: nmu: cdist_4.3.1-1

[Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>]

> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:09:20PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > > Since not every sphinx reverse dependency which uses
> > > ${sphinxdoc:Depends} (about 527 source packages in unstable according
> > > to [1]) seems to have that rather strict dependency (thanks to Mattia
> > > for pointing that out on IRC :-), I wonder what makes cdist's package
> > > build causing that strict dependency.
> >
> > dh_linktree. Replacing files (images, fonts, ...) with symbolic links
> > in deduplicate mode.
> >
> > I could drop it, it would result in increased binary package size and,
> > what bothers me more, several instances of same file in my /usr.
>
> Please drop it. dh_sphinxdoc replaces the JS files with correct symlinks,
> so you do not need to care about it.
>
> (It does not replace the images though, but they are few hundred bytes
> each, so linking them will not have much sense.)

What is wrong with one revision of cdist on every *upstream* version
of sphinx? I took me no more then 20 minutes to make one.

I really, really dislike files duplication, however small they are.