On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 02:16:48PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Source: debian-policy > Version: 4.1.1.1 > > I recently introduced support for nodoc for libgdamm5.0 in its > packaging branch (not uploaded to unstable yet) [1]. Since there is > only one arch-indep package, the -doc package, there are no packages > built when an arch-indep build is attempted with the nodoc build > profile. > > This is technically a violation of Debian Policy 4.9.1 which has this wording > "This option does not change the set of binary packages generated by > the source package, but documentation-only binary packages may be > nearly empty when built with this option." [2] > > I don't think there is any benefit to anyone from empty -doc packages.
What about packages that depend on -doc packages ? They might become uninstallable. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
