> On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 05:09:20PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > > Since not every sphinx reverse dependency which uses > > > ${sphinxdoc:Depends} (about 527 source packages in unstable according > > > to [1]) seems to have that rather strict dependency (thanks to Mattia > > > for pointing that out on IRC :-), I wonder what makes cdist's package > > > build causing that strict dependency. > > > > dh_linktree. Replacing files (images, fonts, ...) with symbolic links > > in deduplicate mode. > > > > I could drop it, it would result in increased binary package size and, > > what bothers me more, several instances of same file in my /usr. > > Please drop it. dh_sphinxdoc replaces the JS files with correct symlinks, > so you do not need to care about it. > > (It does not replace the images though, but they are few hundred bytes > each, so linking them will not have much sense.)
What is wrong with one revision of cdist on every *upstream* version of sphinx? I took me no more then 20 minutes to make one. I really, really dislike files duplication, however small they are.