Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Hi,
please consider adding "nodoc" as a possible DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS value to ยง 4.9.1 [1]. The value "nodoc" or "nodocs" is currently used in 72 source packages according to [2]. Documenting "nodoc" in policy would avoid the confusion between the two. The singular should be preferred because "nocheck" is written in singular as well and because *-doc packages have the singular as a postfix. When bootstrapping, a common approach is to do a build without documentation to be able to drop the build dependencies on documentation building tools. This is why the build profile name "nodoc" exists which, if enabled, allows builds without documentation [3]. It would make sense to allow this value in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS as well as the build profile "nocheck" was also borrowed from DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Thanks! cheers, josch [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-debianrules-options [2] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?prev=&q=(nodoc.*DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)+path%3Adebian%2Frules&skip=0 [3] https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
