On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 00:17 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:38:28 +0200 > Gerion Entrup <gerion.ent...@flump.de> wrote: > > > What about a compromise?: > > Deliver a (prebuild) manpage as package maintainer by default, but keep > > a use flag "man-build" (or whatever) that builds the man page for everyone > > (also the maintainer herself) with use of the crazy extra deps. So a user > > can > > do (incomplete) version bumps and gets a manpage and the maintainer > > gets the prebuild manpage in a defined way. > > You're missing the part where the maintainer is, by the policy, > required to, for every bump: > > 1. Ensure the generated documentation is extracted from the build > 2. Packaged into a tarball somewhere > 3. Uploaded to a server that can host that tarball > 4. Update the package to use that. > > Failure to do this will mean you're shipping out-dated documentation to > the user.
I fail to see how this could happen, unless you'd be using terrible hacks. > This series of back-flips is just not practical at present, and > introduces more steps where mistakes can break the ebuild. From this thread, it seems that most devs find it impractical to even test their ebuilds. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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