On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 07:56:52AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 10 December 2022 at 09:07, Peter Green wrote: > | Source: tiledb-py > | Version: 0.18.2-1 > | Severity: serious > | Justification: rc policy - "Packages must be buildable within the same > release" > | x-debbugs-cc: e...@debian.org > | User: debian...@lists.debian.org > | Usertags: edos-uninstallable > | > | tiledb-py build-depends on libtiledb-doc, which is no longer built by > tiledb since > | version 2.13.0-1, this removal is no mentioned in the changelog, so it's > not clear to me > | if it was deliberate or not. It is still present in unsable as a cruft > package, but is > | completely gone from testing. This means that tiledb-py in testing is in > violation of > | the rc policy. > > Good catch but that was in fact deliberate. > > The build (of a package I inherited / adopted) was giving me fits, and I as > maintainer have decided to follow a) upstreams preference for documentation > on the websites and b) simplify the build.
While this is an acceptable stance, I'd really prefer if you consider to keep vendoring the documentation. I have seen a number of bug reports and also heard from many people that they'd like to have a copy of documentation offline as well, as it a) enables to work when internet is spotty for them b) Look up everything offline instead of the online source as the docs contain API that correspond to the relevant version. I understand that vendoring documentation could be extra work, but if vendoring it is not a source of nuisance for each and every update, and the build rules are constant then I don't see a lot of issue with it. For your case, did you have any particular issues/build failures while vendoring the documentation? Also, I know that you understand tiledb far better than I do, but still I'd like to offer my help for this issue, should you like it, and if you help me understand where exactly it crossed the threshold for maintainer-time-well-spent. > We should adjust tiledb-py This is easy enough to do, which would mean removing doc package from tiledb-py as well. But again, I'd like to do this only after I hear back from you. > (which needs an update for the now released 0.19.0 > anyway, and had skipped minor release 0.18.3 which is ok) accordingly. Thanks for the ping. I work on hunderds of packages and I tend to skip updates so this is helpful. -- Best, Nilesh
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