On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 00:20 W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> I believe that a small number of Python module doc packages use
> binary Sphinx inventory (.inv) files during build, that are just
> downloaded from python.org by the package maintainer. I don't
> know anything about Sphinx nor how to encode/decode .inv files.
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphobjinv is not in Debian, is it?
> How would I create e.g. https://docs.python.org/objects.inv
> from which sources?
>
In the case of Python's documentation inventory specifically, this is built
and distributed in the python*-doc packages, and there should be no need to
download it from python.org.