[PPL-devel] Bug#517659: ppl - FTBFS: Missuse of buildd resources

[Luk Claes]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Mar  2, 2009 at 23:22:36 +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> 
>> We only build the user-docs nowadays, and that actually wouldn't be necessary if
>> Debian's build system did what the policy says: There is no need to re-build the
>> architecture independent stuff on each and every host, but the buildd software
>> does not yet properly use the build-arch target. If it did, we could get rid of
>> all the dependencies (the TeX stuff, doxygen and some others) that needn't get
>> installed and would spare the documentation building time. Bastian, if there is
>> some other nice way to work around the build-arch problem, please let me know.
>>
> build the docs in the binary-indep target instead of build.

And make sure that build dependencies that are only needed for
binary-indep are in Build-Depends-Indep

Cheers

Luk