On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:37:12AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > cyrus-sasl2 is one of the core dependencies required for bootstrapping Debian > but requires the Pyton package Sphinx for building documentation. This can be > easily avoided by removing the "doc-html" target during build. This way, the > python3-sphinx-rtd-theme build dependency can be omitted.
Hmm, yes. This has kinda been addressed for the cross case by annotating the relevant dependency :native, but I see how this is still relevant natively. > It would be ideal for a "nodoc" build profile which I am asking to be added > here. Please don't. cyrus-sasl2 has split out its documentation to an Arch:all package. As such, doing an arch-only build should already skip documentation. I see that this is not how cyrus-sasl2 is packaged, but demoting the sphinx dependency to Build-Depends-Indep is a much better solution, because nodoc is a gross mess and you never know what goes missing there. Instead, with the arch/indep split, we have a quite good understanding of what the build output will be. It also means that buildds immediately benefit from the change and you don't have to do a binary upload. So please don't do nodoc. Do a proper arch/indep split instead. Helmut
