Bug#941632: gnome-panel FTCBFS: gtk-doc does not work during cross

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Simon,

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:50:50AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 at 08:52:24 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> >  Build-Depends: ...
> > -               gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.25),
> > +Build-Depends-Indep: gtk-doc-tools (>= 1.25), ...
> 
> gtk-doc-tools usually needs to stay in Build-Depends for Autotools-based
> packages, because it is required at autoreconf time.
> 
> For Meson-based packages it might be OK to move it to B-D-I - I haven't
> tried that yet - but gnome-panel is still using Autotools at the moment.
> 
> You're right that actually *enabling* gtk-doc in architecture-specific
> builds is unnecessary, and I think just changing the dh_auto_configure
> arguments (without changing the B-D/B-D-I) would be sufficient to have
> the effect you're looking for here?

Thank you for your attention to detail. Much appreciated. I agree with
all of the above.

Helmut