Hi, On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 06:50:19PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > This also allows building functional apt packages with a smaller > dependency chain, so might help with bootstrapping efforts too! Bootstrap usually doesn't care about arch:all packages, so that argument doesn't work that well here. I would even say it works against you: > I thought docbook* and xsltproc could also be excluded from the > Build-Depends, but that triggered some other build failures. They (alongside po4a) are used to build the manpages which we ship in our arch:any packages (we could go with apt-common, but while that saves mirror space, it could waste system space as you now have manpages installed for things you haven't installed… or we go with multiple apt-common packages which increases complexity and overhead… so far we haven't gone down this road as it seems not very beneficial in the end). We certainly could improve support for nodoc (upon your patch) by not building the manpages in this profile which could indeed help boot- strapping (although they never asked so far, which I am somewhat surprised now to be honest) – but it would also end up changing the contents of every package and hence spoil src:apt reproducibility in that it will be reproducible on paper, but nobody can actually use the result. > Of course, ideally building documentation reproducibly would be very > nice as well, so it would be good to eventually fix the underlying > issues in doxygen: > > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/nondeterminstic_todo_identifiers_in_documentation_generated_by_doxygen_issue.html > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/nondeterministic_ordering_in_documentation_generated_by_doxygen_issue.html It seems like hard issue(s) to solve and I am certainly not up to work on this, but there seem not too many effected, so perhaps its worthwhile to go the route of a nodoxygen (or pkg.*.nodoxygen) profile instead as it would mean less variation and e.g. a reproducible binary apt package would at least mean something as everyone has that variant installed. I would at least be happy to beat our build system into omitting just the doxygen part rather than some (currently with patch) or all (possible future) docs. Shouldn't be hard (= famous last words). Best regards David Kalnischkies
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