Hi Benjamin, On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 13:29 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 01:27 +0100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Source: rdma-core > > Version: 50.0-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > rdma-core does not build on minor architectures, since pandoc is not > > available. > > > > pandoc is only needed for documentation (man pages). It might be > > possible to only build docs for arch-indepdent builds, then using > > Build-Depends-Indep: pandoc <!nodoc> > > > > In any case the rdma-core docs (man pages actually) are controlled by > > NO_MAN_PAGES in CMakeLists.txt. What would be needed is to configure > > cmake with -DNO_MAN_PAGES=1 on the minor architectires (if not all > > binary-arch builds) to avoid or reduce the footprint of the pandoc > > Build-Depends. > > would you be willing to submit a merge request / patch for it? The merge > request can go directly against upstream: > https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
The better approach would be building the documents in a separate -doc package instead of building them for every architecture in the archive. Building-depending on pandoc for arch:any packages is usually a bad idea as pandoc has an extremely long list of transitive build-dependencies meaning that any package that requires pandoc for building can only be built once the complete Haskell stack is available. Thus, please let's move the documentation part into arch:all package as this will also dramatically ease the burden when bootstrapping Debian for new architectures such as in the case of loong64 now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
