[Pkg-octave-devel] 2.9.11 is out

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2007-05-23 21:57]:

> I remember that discussion. I will try not to break it, but don't beat me
> if I do. I actually do not know how to test this on my local box.

Simple: the docs should not be built when running ./debian/rules binary-arch.

> That said, I disagree with the buildd admins rationale. If an architecture
> is so slow that building Octave's _documentation_ makes a difference, we 
> shouldn't build Octave at all there. 

I tend to agree to you, but was sympathetic to the buildd admin request.

> Following that kind of argumentation, no package will ever build its
> documentation on a buildd and there will be almost no QA for texinfo and
> friends on any architecture but x86 and AMD64.

This should be the responsibility of the texinfo package itself.  If you
request that every info documentation package should build on every
architecture, then the burden will be too high.  

I took a look at the texinfo package.  It ships with a directory
makeinfo/tests with plenty of regression tests.   However, "make check" does
not work because the necessary files are moved into the texinfo-doc-nonfree
pacakge.  Too bad...

-- 
Rafael