Re: Building with nodoc build profile

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On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:54:47 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:

>I'd like to share this with you before announcing it widely:

Thanks.

>After building the archive (unstable) using the "nodoc" build profile,

Thank you, this is an interesting inititative.

>the following packages failed to build:
>https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/nodoc-20251010/
>Sorted by maintainer, 244 out of 955 packages are maintained by
>"Debian Perl Group".

Hu!

>Could it be the case that some tool (like dh_perl) is misbehaving?

I checked the first couple of logs of "-perl" package; most failed in 
override_dh_installexamples, one in override_dh_installdocs, where we 
try, in debian/rules, to manipulate files in
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/<PKG>/usr/share/doc/<PKG>/{,examples/}

>(If yes, it would not make any sense to announce a MBF yet).

So this is not perl specific (or related to dh_perl); I guess that 
~25% of the failures in your tests is caused by us having many 
packages :)

Having to guard all those actions with something like

override_dh_installexamples:
     ifeq (,$(filter nodoc,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
         # do something
     endif

sounds quite cumbersome.

For the nocheck profile this was solved in debhelper by not running 
{override-,}dh_auto_test if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck is set.

Maybe this can be done similarily for (at least) 
{override_,}dh_installexamples; {override_,}dh_installdocs is 
probably harder but this seems to be more of a niche case.


Cheers,
gregor

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