On Monday, October 31, 2022 1:26:03 PM EDT Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello Frederic, > > Am 31.10.22 um 08:57 schrieb PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: > >> I can build the package basically doing these modifications and by > >> adding the additional B-D package Scott did mention. Simply let > >> dh_sphinxdoc build the documentation and adding the additional needed > >> package dependencies. > > > > [your patch] > > > > In your proposition you removed the arch/indep split, is it on purpose ? > > yes, building the Sphinx based documentation doesn't need to be done > that (to me fragile) way. debhelper is smart enough to do the right > things in the correct order if you tell it to use the sphinxdoc module. Agreed. More generally, use of setup.py is being deprecated in favor of the pyproject.toml based interface with the various Python build systems (including setuptools). The approach Carsten is recommending is recommending is not only more robust, it is more future proof. At some point your upstream will probably stop including the setup.py and you don't want to depend on it if you don't need to (and you don't). Scott K
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