Package: sphinx-common Severity: wishlist Hello.
Please let the sphinx-common binary package Provide: the dh-sequence-sphinxdoc virtual package. Currently, the dh_sphinxdoc(1) manual page recommendeds control: Build-Depends: sphinx-common rules : %: rules : dh $@ --with=sphinxdoc This forces each build machine to install all sphinx-common dependencies before each -arch build. This trivial change would allow control: Build-Depends-Indep: dh-sequence-sphinxdoc dpkg would of course understand that control: Build-Depends-Indep: sphinx-common but debhelper (>= 12) would do the equivalent of rules : override_dh_installdocs-indep: rules : dh_installdocs --indep rules : dh_sphinxdoc --indep and skip dh_sphinxdoc during -arch builds. As far as I know, it would be sufficient to add a 'Provide: dh-sequence-sphinxdoc' line to the sphinx-common stanza in debian/control, and to describe the new recommended usage in debian/dh-sphinxdoc/dh_sphinxdoc. Thanks.
