Matthias Klose added the comment:

> I'm not sure I understand your position.  External tools are only
> permissible if Debian packages exist for them?

for a package build to use them, yes.

> And, it's not "core python", it's the Python documentation, which has
> always depended on external tools.  The dependencies for CPython itself
> (the "python" executable) have not changed.

afaict, the tools needed to build the documentation didn't change within 
subminor version updates.

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