"P. J. McDermott" <p...@nac.net> writes:
> On 2012-07-23 04:47, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> "P. J. McDermott" <p...@nac.net> writes:
>>> libtasn1-3 build-depends on gtk-doc-tools and texlive-latex-base,
>>> neither of which is used in the build process. Both can be safely
>>> removed from debian/control as in the attached patch (tested in a sid
>>> chroot).
>>
>> The dependencies should be used during the build process to generate the
>> GTK-DOC API manual. I've heard before that it is recommended that
>> everything that is shipped in Debian packages are built from sources to
>> make sure that it is possible to rebuild generated files if necessary.
>> I recall this is common for other packages with GTK-DOC manuals too.
>
> The manual isn't being built by debian/rules, so the build dependencies
> currently aren't being used at all.
Thanks for noticing -- the patch below should fix that.
/Simon
Index: rules
===================================================================
--- rules (revision 1516)
+++ rules (working copy)
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS = --enable-ld-version-script --with-packager=Debian \
--with-packager-bug-reports=http://bugs.debian.org/ \
--with-packager-version="$(DEB_VERSION)" \
+ --enable-gtk-doc --enable-gtk-doc-pdf \
--libdir=\$${prefix}/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
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