[debhelper-devel] Bug#865869: debhelper: Don't run dh_installdocs if nodoc is specified in DEB_BUILD_PROFILES

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Thu Jun 29 10:52:40 UTC 2017


Hi Holger,

> policy is there for reasons and in this case it's because most free software
> demands that the copyright licence is shipped together with the binaries.

In this case, sure, but I was already making the more-abstract point that
folks probably shouldn't be uploading packages to "real" Debian that are
built with any of these profiles.

(Or, at least I was, until I was corrected re. bootstrapping, so this sub-
diversion is a little moot.)


Regards,

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