Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2018-07-04 Thread Do Thanh Trung
Source: coreutils Version: 8.28-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Usertags: rebootstrap Hi We also did cross build coreutils and got the same problem that help2man can't get `--help' info from cross-binaries. We tried adding an extra step in debian/rules that builds native man pages first, then

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2017-10-03 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2017-09-30 2:53 GMT+02:00 Michael Stone : > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:08:18AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo > wrote: >> >> 2017-09-29 2:59 GMT+02:00 Michael Stone : >>> >>> I'd rather have a standardized build option to skip the documentation >>> than

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2017-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:08:18AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: 2017-09-29 2:59 GMT+02:00 Michael Stone : I'd rather have a standardized build option to skip the documentation than something that sometimes builds man pages that don't match what's being built.

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2017-09-29 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi Mike, 2017-09-29 2:59 GMT+02:00 Michael Stone : > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:45:57AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo > wrote: >> >> I was thinking of preparing an NMU for this, help2man issues are very >> annoying to (re)bootstrap ports. >> >> Michael, do you have any

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2017-09-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:45:57AM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: I was thinking of preparing an NMU for this, help2man issues are very annoying to (re)bootstrap ports. Michael, do you have any preference about how the solution should look like? Or would you reject a NMU at all?

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2017-09-28 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2016-03-12 19:41 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap 2016-03-12 17:03 To Eleanor Chen: Hi, 2013-08-30 18:03 Eleanor Chen: Package: src:coreutils During cross build help2man may not run leading FTBFS, it would be good if it uses dummy-man. Here

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2016-03-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap 2016-03-12 17:03 To Eleanor Chen: Hi, 2013-08-30 18:03 Eleanor Chen: Package: src:coreutils During cross build help2man may not run leading FTBFS, it would be good if it uses dummy-man. Here is the patch for it, but I'm not sure if it's an

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2016-03-12 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, 2013-08-30 18:03 Eleanor Chen: Package: src:coreutils During cross build help2man may not run leading FTBFS, it would be good if it uses dummy-man. Here is the patch for it, but I'm not sure if it's an appropriate solution. It would be very beneficial to have this patch applied, or an

Bug#721358: coreutils: use dummy man when cross build

2013-08-30 Thread Eleanor Chen
Package: src:coreutils During cross build help2man may not run leading FTBFS, it would be good if it uses dummy-man. Here is the patch for it, but I'm not sure if it's an appropriate solution. Thanks, Eleanor Chen coreutils-use-dummy-man-when-cross.diff Description: Binary data