Hi Simon!

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 06:46:46PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> This would be reversing the recent recommendation to
> call `python3 -m sphinx` in preference to `sphinx-build` (e.g. in
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=945452> and
> <https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide>). I don't
> fully understand what the reason for that recommendation was; does it
> still apply?

I think we switched to ‘python3 -m sphinx’ to make sure that the Python 3
version is always used, not the Python 2 one:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2018/08/msg00076.html

As Sphinx no longer supports Python 3, I think this can be safely reverted.

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Dmitry Shachnev

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