[Python-modules-team] Bug#830186: sphinx: intersphinx mapping extension causes network access during package builds

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Dmitry,

> You say that we can read some flag set by dh-python. However, dh-python
> (aka pybuild) already sets http{,s}_proxy environment variables which
> disable network access for Sphinx. So packages using dh-python are already
> safe.

Ah, nice. I'll go ahead and file bugs against the individual packages :)

> The packages using intersphinx should be probably patched anyway to use
> the distro provided inventory files, and I think it is the best solution we
> have. Some examples:
> 
> http://sources.debian.net/src/psycopg2/2.6.1-1/debian/patches/local_inventory/
> http://sources.debian.net/src/celery/3.1.23-4/debian/patches/intersphinx.patch/

Thank you for this.


Regards,

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