Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.11 is out
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com> [2007-05-23 14:40]:
> There are some variables (savefiles, save-files) in the debian/rules. Is my
> understanding correct that they are only there to prevent building the
> documentation on every architecture?
I think that the savefiles variable and the save-files rules are there for
avoiding changes to sneak into the diff.gz file in successive builds of the
package.
> I would prefer to get rid of these.
If the problem above is not real, then please get rid of them.
> Our rules file is cluttered, [snip]
I can only agree with you. If you can remove the cruft in debian/rules
without losing functionality, it will be great.
> [snip] building the documentation doesn't take much time compared to the
> whole build process and it's some sort of QA for texinfo on every platform.
Notice that building the documentation should only happen when binary-indep
is called (after all, octave*-{doc,htmldoc,info} are Arch: all). In the
past, we have received complaints from the buildd admins that the
documentation packages were built by the binary target. Please, do not
revert the current situation.
--
Rafael
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