[Python-modules-team] Bug#877895: intersphinx plugin makes packages unreproducible

[Antoine Beaupré]

[taking the liberty to add back the BTS in CC, I hope that's okay]

On 2017-10-06 22:20:11, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Antoine Beaupre wrote on Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 15:51:46 -0400:
>> -<li><strong>to_addr</strong> (<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str" title="(in Python v3.6)"><em>str</em></a>) – the email to use as “to” (defaults to
>> +<li><strong>to_addr</strong> (<em>str</em>) – the email to use as “to” (defaults to
>
> <anarcat> problem is the interlinks mapping is sometimes more than stdlib (like in my case)
> <anarcat> gtg
>
> In this case, the solution I described on IRC works more generally...  
>
> If python3-foo's docs link to python3-bar's, then have python3-foo
> build-depend on python3-bar, have python3-bar provide a parseable
> documentation index, and have python3-foo's build use that index.

I believe that those docs package already do provide docs index, e.g.:

/usr/share/doc/python-configparser/html/objects.inv

it's just a matter of fixing sphinx to make that work then... i wonder
if interlinks supports file:// paths?

a.

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