dh_sphinxdoc - helps with packaging Sphinx-generated
documentation
dh_sphinxdoc [debhelper options]
[-Xitem] [directory...]
dh_sphinxdoc is a debhelper program that prepares
Sphinx-generated documentation for inclusion in a Debian package. More
specifically:
- It checks if all the files referenced by searchindex.js exist.
- It replaces known *.js files with symlinks to
/usr/share/javascript/sphinxdoc/ and generates
${sphinxdoc:Depends} substitution variable.
- If the Sphinx RTD theme is used, it replaces known files from this theme
with symlinks to /usr/share/sphinx_rtd_theme/, and adds
sphinx-rtd-theme-common to ${sphinxdoc:Depends}.
- It provides a ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using} substitution variable, for
tracking files which could not be symlinked. Examples of such files are
*.js and *.css files that are generated from corresponding
*.js_t and *.css_t templates, and can vary depending on the
used theme options (for instance, basic.css file is generated from
basic.css_t and is included in almost every Sphinx-generated
documentation). Currently, this variable will contain sphinx and,
if the default theme is used, alabaster, with their versions (other
themes are not supported).
- It removes the .doctrees directory.
- It removes the .buildinfo file.
- It removes the websupport.js file.
Note that dh_sphinxdoc does not build the documentation, it
only performs the above operations when the documentation is already
installed into the package build path. To build the docs, please use
sphinx-build(1) command or python3 -m sphinx syntax.
You can pass --with sphinxdoc to dh(1) to make it
automatically call dh_sphinxdoc after dh_installdocs.
- directory
- By default, dh_sphinxdoc scans your package looking for directories
looking like they contain Sphinx-generated documentation. However, if you
explicitly provide one or more directories, only they will be processed.
If documentation is not found at directory, an error is
raised.
- -Xitem,
--exclude=item
- Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from
being symlinked, removed or checked for existence.
Symlinking translations.js is not supported.
debhelper(7), dh(1).
This program is meant to be used together with debhelper.
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>