> Simplest I can think of would be to build the extensions inplace > followed by the call to build_man. Something like:
> override_dh_auto_build: > dh_auto_build > python3 setup.py build_ext --inplace > python3 setup.py build_man I do not want to build once more the ext (it takes a lot's of time on my computer and it is a wast of ressources). I just want to run {interpreter} setup.py build_man <options> where <options> are provided by pybuild > I left the http_proxy exports and nodoc guards out for clarity. thanks ;) > Second questions what is the right way to generate the man pages for a > python application ? > Usually via Sphinx if the upstream documentation uses it. Regardless of > the stack, `help2man` is often considered the poor man choice for > generating manpages. Thanks, I know this but I need more time to convince the upstream to find a better solution :) > Let me know if you'd like me to have a look :-) thanks a lot Fred