On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 06:50:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
For now, the attached debdiff simply disables generation of the docs for cross-builds. The right answer (IMHO) would be to convince upstream to generate their docs in a more sane way (e.g. having a common source for help information that could be used both for --help output *and* the man pages).
They don't strictly need to be built at build time, but the alternative does make things a bit more complicated. Basically, any time a patch changes the help you need to rebuild it, but that could be done at packaging time with some kind of option to apply all the patches, build & generate the man pages, save a diff of the new man pages, and add that diff to the package. Patches welcome. :-) I'll actually look closer at it tonight, there may even be a simpler solution than that as I usually try really hard to avoid touching the help output (because it also screws up localization strings) and it might be sufficient to try to just keep the versions from the upstream tar.
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