[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#911452: Bug#911452: Bug#911452: rust-pulldown-cmark: Please generate the manpages as part of the build process

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 20/10/2018 à 21:06, Wolfgang Silbermayr a écrit :
> On 10/20/18 12:55 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Package: rust-pulldown-cmark
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> Currently, the manpage is in the VCS. It should be generated at build phase.
>> This to avoid being out of sync.
> 
> I would love to generate it at build. I intentionally decided not to,
> because for this the help2man run would have to call the newly built
> binary, and if i remember correctly this is a problem when
> cross-compiling a package. If we have a solution to this problem, or if
> this is a misunderstanding from my side, we can generate the manpage at
> package build time.
I am not sure this is a big deal.

FYI, I did it for cbindgen:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=rust-cbindgen

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