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Bug#981618: libdrm: reduce Build-Depends



On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 07:34:35 +0100 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> Source: libdrm
> Version: 2.4.104-1
> Tags: patch
> 
> libdrm no longer builds its documentation with xsltproc and ruses
> restructred text now. It also no longer uses xutils-dev.

I was able to confirm that those can be dropped.

> And libx11-dev is only used in some tests.
> We can annotate libx11-dev <!nocheck>.

Is that still the case?
Can you perhaps expand on why that annotation is appropriate (for my learning 
experience)? Policy 4.9.1 mentions "to not run any build-time test suite 
provided by the package" with the 'nocheck' tag, but that sounds a bit heavy-
handed to me?

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