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Subject: Re: Python 3 Statsmodels & Pandas
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:20:02 +0200
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On 29/09/17 23:55, Diane Trout wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 22:05 +0100, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote:
>> statsmodels passed NEW...and FTBFS with
>>
>> dh: unable to load addon sphinxdoc: Can't locate
>> Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/sphinxdoc.pm in @INC
>> That file is in the sphinx-common package, which suggests that at
>> least
>> some of the sphinx dependencies need to be Build-Depends and not
>> just
>> Build-Depends-Indep.
> 
> Oops.
> 
> I thought that it wouldn't try using sphinx when not building doc
> packages. But apparently being listed in "dh --with" counts as being
> used.
> 
> I wonder if it's better to filter sphinxdoc out of the dh line, install
> sphinx-common, or just always install python3-sphinx?
> 
> I have some ideas of what to do, I should be able to fix this soon.

Either always install python3-sphinx (no harm in doing so), or use 
sphinx-common + python3-sphinx <!nodoc> + nodoc guards in d/rules.

There is no need for more complicated logic.

Ghis