Package: debhelper Version: 12.2.3 Severity: normal Hi,
While working on my manpages-pl source package, I've noticed that the dh_installman step takes more time to execute than all other build steps together. This poor performance is caused by recoding all (i.e. about 1500 in case of manpages-pl) man pages into UTF-8, what is pretty much useless in case of my package, because the pages are in UTF-8 already. It would be nice if dh_installman could have some option to disable recoding or if it could at least filter the manpages to recode with `isutf8 -l' or similar command. (I've just checked that 'isutf8 -l debian/tmp/usr/share/man/pl/man*/*' inside the package is really quick to determine that all files are in UTF-8). Regards, robert -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (990, 'unstable-debug'), (990, 'unstable'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.37-vox (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii autotools-dev 20180224.1 ii dh-autoreconf 19 ii dh-strip-nondeterminism 1.4.0-1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii dwz 0.12.20190723-1 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii man-db 2.8.5-2 ii perl 5.28.1-6 ii po-debconf 1.0.21 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information
