control: retitle -1 Switch back to dh_sphinxdoc from dh_linktree control: block -1 by 658238
Hello Vagrant, On Tue 14 Aug 2018 at 11:59AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > For many years, I've installed debian-policy from sid on a stable system > to have it readily available, but recent versions of debian-policy have > a versioned dependency that is unsatisfyable in stable: > > Depends: libjs-sphinxdoc (<< 1.7.6.0~), libjs-sphinxdoc (>= 1.7.6) Yes, this is annoying. It affects me too. > I'm not sure exactly what necessitates a dependency on these (html > documentation?). The main files of interest to me are policy.txt.gz and > upgrading-checklist.txt.gz, and find it hard to believe those require > libjs-sphinxdoc to read. I imagine several of the other formats (.epub, > .pdf) also shouldn't require libjs-sphinxdoc. > > If it is plausible to downgrade to a Recommends, or split out the > libjs-sphinxdoc documentation into a separate package, or the text-only > documentation into a separate package, or some other resolution, that > would be much appreciated! The problem is caused by the switch to dh_linktree from dh_sphinxdoc. Unfortunately, that is necessary now that we have translations, which dh_sphinxdoc is not yet able to handle. -- Sean Whitton
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