Bug#683030: unblock: vlc/2.0.3-1

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sun Jul 29 21:16:29 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 22:32 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 12-07-28 at 04:47pm, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > - this change looks slightly odd:
> > 
> >   * Do not run doxygen if it is not installed.
> > 
> > doxygen is in B-D-Indep and only appears to be used when building the 
> > arch:all -doc package.  On that basis, why would it not always be 
> > installed when required?
> 
> I did not apply this change but recognize it from Emdebian sprint: 
> Reason is, I believe, to ease bootstrapping new architectures by 
> suppressing build of arch-all packages.

Hmmm, unless I'm reading the rules files incorrectly, purely running the
binary-arch target should already have DTRT without requiring doxygen to
be installed.  Hence the query, as the change appears to be effectively
an unnecessary no-op right now.

Regards,

Adam




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