Hi Brian, On July 17, 2016 3:44:29 AM GMT+02:00, Brian May <b...@debian.org> wrote: > Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org> writes: > > > Setuptools provides a build_sphinx command out of the box. For > packages > > using distutils, there is a sphinx.setup_command module provided by > > Sphinx. > > > > Some upstreams call that command during build phase, though that’s > not > > common. > > Is there any reason that this isn't more common? Should I be doing > this > for my packages which I maintain upstream?
If you are both the upstream and the packager, then adding a few lines in debian/rules to build the documentation is probably easier than hacking the build command in setup.py. -- Dmitry Shachnev
