[Python-modules-team] Bug#961206: improve sphinx usage for cross building

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 13:43:42 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> A very rough
> sketch for this would be moving sphinx-build and the other tools to a
> new binary package maybe called simply "sphinx". Of course "sphinx"
> would depend on python3-sphinx, but given that sphinx would only cover
> the command line interface, sphinx could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign.
> Does this make sense in principle when one ignores the transition cost?

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?

    smcv