Just figured it out so decided to share, may be it impacts your packages as well...
I've detected that many of the packages of ours shipping sphinx-generated html documentation cannot search offline -- just produces stale "Searching ..." The reason was — they were built with option to carry _sources (upstream default), and they might even carry them (if were not stripped in debian/rules like we often did). For not-yet-known reason then search stalls if done on documents from /usr/share/doc/.... Easy 'fix' was to replace HAS_SOURCE: true with HAS_SOURCE: false in search.html or build without '_sources': html_copy_source = False I guess there might be open bug somewhere... didn't have chance to look yet -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101108231614.gu12...@onerussian.com