On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:53:00 +0000 Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 19:41:51 +0200 Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: debhelper > > Version: 12.2.3 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > > > Hi Colin, > > I received the following report against dh_installman and its performance. >
Hi Colin, Did you have time to look at this report? ~Niels > > 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 > > > > [...] > > Is there some way to trivially detect if the manpages need re-encoding > (without pulling moreutils as dependency or re-implementing the relevant > code in Perl)? Like some troff-ish rune in the early part of the file > that says "this file is definitely UTF-8" or something like that? > > As I recall, we already talked about speeding up the re-encoding > previously. From memory, the conclusion was that we were already doing > what we could in debhelper with the current level of support from man-db. > > Thanks, > ~Niels > >
