On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:45:57AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
I was thinking of preparing an NMU for this, help2man issues are very
annoying to (re)bootstrap ports.
Michael, do you have any preference about how the solution should look
like? Or would you reject a NMU at all?
I'd rather have a standardized build option to skip the documentation
than something that sometimes builds man pages that don't match what's
being built. In dreamland I think an even better option would be a
mechanism (maybe in dpkg-buildpackage?) to set a build flag indicating
that this should be a minimal build for bootstrapping (skip anything
that needs to run natively or that might otherwise cause problems) and
automatically sets the version string to something indicating it's a
less-than-complete package. Putting some kind of unique hack or magic
side effect into dozens of packages seems like a less-than-optimal
solution.
Mike Stone
