On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:54:47 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
I'd like to share this with you before announcing it widely:
Thanks.
After building the archive (unstable) using the "nodoc" build profile,
Thank you, this is an interesting inititative.
the following packages failed to build: https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/nodoc-20251010/ Sorted by maintainer, 244 out of 955 packages are maintained by "Debian Perl Group".
Hu!
Could it be the case that some tool (like dh_perl) is misbehaving?
I checked the first couple of logs of "-perl" package; most failed in override_dh_installexamples, one in override_dh_installdocs, where we try, in debian/rules, to manipulate files in
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/<PKG>/usr/share/doc/<PKG>/{,examples/}
(If yes, it would not make any sense to announce a MBF yet).
So this is not perl specific (or related to dh_perl); I guess that ~25% of the failures in your tests is caused by us having many packages :)
Having to guard all those actions with something like
override_dh_installexamples:
ifeq (,$(filter nodoc,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
# do something
endif
sounds quite cumbersome.
For the nocheck profile this was solved in debhelper by not running
{override-,}dh_auto_test if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck is set.
Maybe this can be done similarily for (at least) {override_,}dh_installexamples; {override_,}dh_installdocs is probably harder but this seems to be more of a niche case.
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