[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:25:16PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> 1) compile docs pre-build-time; or >>>> 2) compile docs in build-time >>> >>> Definitely the latter. We build stuff at build time for a reason, >>> architecture-specific or -independent alike. >> >> Is this the consensus/best-practice on this question? >> >> It seems like it would be quite taxing on the autobuilders to have to pull >> something like docbook (and its chain of dependencies) into a pbuilder just >> to recompile a manpage that doesn't change between architectures. >> >> I'm interested in this because I've typically done (2), but have recently >> started to think that (1) is more appropriate, particularly for packages >> where the documentation is a simple manpage. > > And It's exactly this the case in question, for me.
I think that if upstream ships pre-built docs, then it is not necessary to rebuild them (but you should verify that it's possible...). In all other cases, I would argue for generating the docs at build-time. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)