On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 09:24:35PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The reason I think it's RC is that it demonstrates that the > documentation files shipped in the package are not buildable from > source (at least, using tools in the current version of Debian > unstable main).
IMO, it does not demonstrate that the files are unbuildable. It is completely possible that they are indeed buildable from source, but using additional build-depeds. Think about a package made with autoconf which is packaged without debhelper. If you modify configure.in, and as a result, the package does not build, it does not mean configure is "unbuildable from source", it just means you have to add autoconf to build-depends. In this case: are the existence of "apibuild.py.stamp" and the references to apibuild.py in the Makefile not a good indication that maybe you can't just modify apibuild.py and expect everything to work? Thanks.
