Build the man-pages properly during deb creation

Have debian/rules do it instead of your own Makefile

Author: waveform80

.gitignore

@@ -27,7 +27,3 @@ coverage
 .coverage
 .tox
 .cache
-
-# Generated documentation
-docs/_build
-man/

Makefile

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ DIST_DSC=dist/$(NAME)_$(VER)$(DEB_SUFFIX).tar.xz \
 	dist/$(NAME)_$(VER)$(DEB_SUFFIX)_source.build \
 	dist/$(NAME)_$(VER)$(DEB_SUFFIX)_source.buildinfo \
 	dist/$(NAME)_$(VER)$(DEB_SUFFIX)_source.changes
-MAN_PAGES=man/pinout.1 man/remote-gpio.7
 
 
 # Default target
@@ -123,11 +122,6 @@ tags: $(PY_SOURCES)
 $(SUBDIRS):
 	$(MAKE) -C $@
 
-$(MAN_PAGES): $(DOC_SOURCES)
-	$(PYTHON) $(PYFLAGS) setup.py build_sphinx -b man
-	mkdir -p man/
-	cp build/sphinx/man/*.[0-9] man/
-
 $(DIST_TAR): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS)
 	$(PYTHON) $(PYFLAGS) setup.py sdist --formats gztar
 
@@ -137,7 +131,7 @@ $(DIST_ZIP): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS)
 $(DIST_WHEEL): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS)
 	$(PYTHON) $(PYFLAGS) setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
 
-$(DIST_DEB): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS) $(DEB_SOURCES) $(MAN_PAGES)
+$(DIST_DEB): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS) $(DEB_SOURCES)
 	# build the binary package in the parent directory then rename it to
 	# project_version.orig.tar.gz
 	$(PYTHON) $(PYFLAGS) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=../
@@ -146,7 +140,7 @@ $(DIST_DEB): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS) $(DEB_SOURCES) $(MAN_PAGES)
 	mkdir -p dist/
 	for f in $(DIST_DEB); do cp ../$${f##*/} dist/; done
 
-$(DIST_DSC): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS) $(DEB_SOURCES) $(MAN_PAGES)
+$(DIST_DSC): $(PY_SOURCES) $(SUBDIRS) $(DEB_SOURCES)
 	# build the source package in the parent directory then rename it to
 	# project_version.orig.tar.gz
 	$(PYTHON) $(PYFLAGS) setup.py sdist --dist-dir=../

debian/python3-gpiozero.manpages

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-man/pinout.1
-man/remote-gpio.7
+build/man/pinout.1
+build/man/remote-gpio.7

debian/rules

@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ override_dh_auto_test:
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	dh_auto_build
 	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -N -bhtml docs/ build/html
+	PYTHONPATH=. sphinx-build -N -bman docs/ build/man