appstream-glib-0.3.3 needs gtk-doc to build about appstream-glib HOT 6 CLOSED

Did you run ./autogen.sh ?

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We run autoreconf downstream for this packages instead of plain ./autogen.sh... anyway, to run autogen.sh, we also need gtk-doc to provide gtkdocize:
./autogen.sh
Warning: I am going to run 'configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
'./autogen.sh' command line.

./autogen.sh: línea 28: gtkdocize: no se encontró la orden

Then, we are in the same issue as would need people to have gtk-doc present all the times. In general, make distcheck should pregenerate most of the stuff making gtk-doc requirement optional :/

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Why are you running autoreconf at all? Is gtkdocize not in your path?

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gtkdocize is only available when gtk-doc package is present, then, we would still need to have gtk-doc unconditionally :/

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If you build from a tarball, you don't need gtk-doc to be installed. If you build from git, it's not unreasonable to require other utilities to regenerate certain files that are normally provided in the project-approved deliverable.

If I deliver you a retail car you are expected to be able to drive it without owning a spring compressor. If you want to want to build the car from parts, it's not unreasonable to require a the user to own a spring compressor. I'm not prepared to start shipping generated files in git, sorry.

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Ah! The issue is that we didn't know were to get the proper tarballs and were using the ones from:
https://github.com/hughsie/appstream-glib/releases

Looking to Fedora I have seen the proper location sorry. I am going to fix it right now at downstream side, sorry for the noise, at least we have found now the proper tarballs and homepage :)

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