[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#842452: FTBFS depdnding on docs/apibuild.py timestamp (api docs not buildable)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 09:24:35PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> The reason I think it's RC is that it demonstrates that the
> documentation files shipped in the package are not buildable from
> source (at least, using tools in the current version of Debian
> unstable main).

IMO, it does not demonstrate that the files are unbuildable.

It is completely possible that they are indeed buildable from source,
but using additional build-depeds.

Think about a package made with autoconf which is packaged without
debhelper. If you modify configure.in, and as a result, the package
does not build, it does not mean configure is "unbuildable from
source", it just means you have to add autoconf to build-depends.

In this case: are the existence of "apibuild.py.stamp" and the
references to apibuild.py in the Makefile not a good indication that
maybe you can't just modify apibuild.py and expect everything to work?

Thanks.