Hi Dmitry, On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:14:23AM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Does this mean that packages that are not using autodoc (like ncmpc) can > already build-depend on python3-sphinx:native to become cross-buildable?
Yes, that is my understanding. My plan was postponing such patches to simplify stretch-backports. I'm not opposed to them in general, I just didn't want to cause unnecessary work. > Does cmake sound like a good start? It already has docs in a separate > package, just needs the B-D adjusted. Yes, cmake is on the list above precisely due to sphinx. It also is a key package, so it fits my description very well. I certainly appreciate you putting effort in resolving these issues. I also appreciate X-Debbugs-Cc (to record the bug numbers). Debian unstable currently has almost 30000 source packages. Almost 14000 of them build architecture-dependent binary packages. (The others are irrelevant to cross building). Around 7500 have cross-satisfiable dependencies. I didn't work that much on satisfiability problems lately, so this is only around 55%. Having you work here would be a boon. Of the 3900 packages that I tried building, 2900 do cross build. This is a much higher ratio of almost 75%. Getting those 55% up would be awesome. If you fix half of the sphinx users, we're 1% closer to perfection. :) Helmut
