Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:16:48PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> Source: debian-policy
> Version: 4.1.1.1
>
> I recently introduced support for nodoc for libgdamm5.0 in its
> packaging branch (not uploaded to unstable yet) [1]. Since there is
> only one arch-indep package, the -doc package, there are no packages
> built when an arch-indep build is attempted with the nodoc build
> profile.
>
> This is technically a violation of Debian Policy 4.9.1 which has this wording
> "This option does not change the set of binary packages generated by
> the source package, but documentation-only binary packages may be
> nearly empty when built with this option." [2]
>
> I don't think there is any benefit to anyone from empty -doc packages.
What about packages that depend on -doc packages ?
They might become uninstallable.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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