[SCM] mplayer packaging branch, master, updated. debian/1.0.rc2+svn20090303-2-15-gfa424e6

[Reinhard Tartler]

Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> writes:

> El 23/03/09 20:37 Reinhard Tartler escribió:
>> mennucc1 at users.alioth.debian.org writes:
>> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>> > commit fa424e6b54409bc27cb4ad3631d40abf6fcaa154
>> > Author: Andrea Mennucc <mennucc1 at debian.org>
>> > Date:   Mon Mar 23 10:06:03 2009 +0100
>> >
>> >     move documentation-related dependencies into Build-Depends ,
>> >     otherwise ./configure fails
>>
>> the rationale isn't quite correct. It's not configure that fails, but
>> our debian/rules file insists on building the documentation even on the
>> buildds. Which is plain wrong and a bug *we* have to fix.
>
> Policy and dpkg are inconsistent in this sense. dpkg-buildpackage actually 
> calls debian/rules build instead of debian/rules build-arch when called 
> with -B. So Build-Depends-Indep is not really useful right now (unless you do 
> ugly tricks like building documentation in the binary-indep target). 

how would that work?

could you perhaps post a patch demonstrating that ugly trick?

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