Package: debhelper Version: 10.2.5 Severity: wishlist The Debian Policy has recently introduced DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodoc. I've just tried to handle it in one of my packages, namely afterstep, but it quickly turned out that if the documentation files are not generated, then dh_install fails because it still trying to install them. Fortunatelly my debian/*.install and other debhelper files are generated, so I can easily filter /usr/share/{doc,man} out of them, but then dh_installwm fails due to missing man page.
Could you please add support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nodoc into debhelper, so that it will not try to install anything into /usr/share/doc (except copyright, changelog, and maybe NEWS.Debian), and /usr/share/man? Also it should not install doc-base files either for obvious reason. I think this will require changes at least in dh_install, dh_installdoc, dh_installman, dh_installwm. (The Policy says in section 4.9.1 that the `nodoc' option should cause build process to skip generation of documentation files, like man pages, API documentation, etc. This probably means that the non-generated documentation can be sill installed, however I am not sure if debhelper will be able to distinguish between generated and non-generated doc files on its own, that's why I think that debhelper in the `nodoc' mode should simply avoid installing any documentation). Regards, robert -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20161112.1 ii binutils 2.28-6 ii dh-autoreconf 14 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 0.035-2 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.30-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii perl 5.24.1-4 ii po-debconf 1.0.20 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information