On 30/03/24 13:38, Jonathan Carter wrote:
On 2024/03/30 11:05, Simon Josefsson wrote:
1. Move towards allowing, and then favoring, git-tags over source
tarballs
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Some people have suggested this before -- and I have considered adopting
that approach myself, but one thing that is often overlooked is that
building from git usually increase the Build-Depends quite a lot
compared to building from tarball
How in the world do you jump to that conclusion?
Usually it's due to thing like precompiled documentation:
{man,info}pages, HTML pages.
To generate these files you usually need texinfo, groff, pandoc, sphinx,
etc. All big packages with plenty of runtime and build-time dependencies.
But as I said, for cases like arch rebootstraps, <nodoc> can remove the
need to bootstrap a long (and often circular) chain of dependencies.
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
