Bug#879049: debian-policy: 4.9.1: Allow nodoc to be used to not create empty -doc packages
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 14:58:24 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> > I don't think this is a policy violation: you're mixing up the nodoc
> > build profile with the nodoc build option.
>
> Specifically, this is what I used in my test case where no packages are built.
> sbuild -d unstable -A --no-arch-any --profiles nodoc
As far as I understand it, this is considered to have undefined behaviour
(the package is not guaranteed to build, either correctly or at all) unless
you also specify DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodoc.
> Do you have a reason why we should not remove that sentence from Debian Policy?
I have no particular objection to your proposal, I just don't think what
you implemented in this package was a Policy violation (I did the same
in ostree, and in the unreleased version of flatpak in collab-maint git).
smcv
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