Re: Avoiding download of intersphinx inventories during build
Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> writes:
> Hi Nikolaus (2011.07.05_21:01:21_+0200)
>> The python module I'm packaging uses intersphinx. Since the debian
>> package rebuilds the documentation from the sources, the package needs
>> to download the inventories:
>
> It will, of course, build successfully without them, just won't include
> intersphinx links and will throw some warnings. However, yes, that still
> goes again Debian policy, and produces a different build.
>
> intersphinx is capable of referring to a local inventory file, you could
> patch the source to do that, and include an inventory in debian/. A
> slightly stale inventory shouldn't be a major problem.
Sounds good, will do that.
Thanks!
-Nikolaus
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