Re: nodoc solution HOWTO -- Avoid building Sphinx documentation on request (was: Bug#905750: RFS: elpy/1.23.0-1)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Nicholas D Steeves:
> Hi Ben and readers of debian-mentors,
> 
> Solution at bottom.
> 
> [...]
> 
> "export DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; gbp buildpackage" does not work,
> although I expect "DEB_BUILD_PROFILES=nodoc ; export
> DEB_BUILD_PROFILES ; gbp buildpackage" should.
> 

Rather, I think there is a typo in changes.

> ---
>  debian/changelog | 6 ++++++
>  debian/control   | 4 ++--
>  debian/rules     | 8 +++++++-
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> [...]
> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> index a9d70b4..bd4c218 100755
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ export LC_ALL
>  # docs are not generated without this override
>  override_dh_auto_build:
>  	dh_auto_build
> -	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -N -bman docs/ build/man # Manpage generator
> +# support the nodoc build profile
> +ifneq ($(filter nodocs,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)),)
                   ^^^^^^

nodocs != nodoc

> +	echo -e "\nnodoc build profile enabled, therefor not building docs.\n"
> +else
> +	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -N -bman docs/ build/man
>  	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -N -btexinfo docs/ build/info
>  	makeinfo --no-split build/info/Elpy.texi -o build/info/elpy.info
>  	cat NEWS.rst debian/local-var-snippet > build/NEWS
> +endif
> +
> 

Thanks,
~Niels