diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 88e25f7b513f8155bb4a5379f30d9a958e643d08..f9ef4d776fef083b79bfe57c93d3883227f98d63 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ scikit-learn (0.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
- dropped swig (not needed since awhile)
- moved sphinx, PIL, and graphviz to Build-Depends-Indep since
needed only for -doc package
- - require sphinx 1.1.3 due to problems with unicode in earlier
- present on older Debian/Ubuntu's versions
+ - do not build documentation when sphinx < 1.1.3 due to problems
+ with unicode in earlier present on older Debian/Ubuntu's versions
- boosted policy to 3.9.4 (no further changes)
- migrate from python-support to dh_python2
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0a3453c5afea57ab9e6bf4ba7b8693600eb7f55e..16ed7d280077995b73398933600deb32c91f7ae3 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50),
python-matplotlib,
python-joblib (>= 0.4.5), python-support
Build-Depends-Indep:
- python-sphinx (>= 1.1.3~), python-imaging, graphviz,
+ python-sphinx (>= 1.0), python-imaging, graphviz,
Standards-Version: 3.9.4
XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
Homepage: http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index c769cfff14d1bd53ec83bf42e0c4225603b3f4eb..eacf75a5ddaee787f601ade067176e5c76e6f6a4 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ PACKAGE_ROOT_DIR = debian/${PACKAGE_NAME}
PYVERS = $(shell pyversions -vr)
PYVER = $(shell pyversions -vd)
+SPHINX_VER := $(shell python -c 'from sphinx import __version__; print __version__')
+NODOC = $(shell dpkg --compare-versions $(SPHINX_VER) lt 10.1.3 && echo "nodoc" || echo "")
+export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS += $(NODOC)
+
# Some tests are known to fail randomly so need to be excluded ATM
NOSEARGS :=
# --exclude='test_(sparse_svc_clone_with_callable_kernel|spectral_clustering_sparse|ovr_fit_predict)'
@@ -56,6 +60,9 @@ else
export MPLCONFIGDIR=$(CURDIR)/build HOME=$(CURDIR)/build; \
cd doc; $(MAKE) html
endif
+else
+ mkdir -p doc/_build/html
+ echo "<HTML><BODY><P>sklearn documentation was not built.<P>Please visit <A HREF='http://scikit-learn.org'>http://scikit-learn.org</A></BODY></HTML>" >| doc/_build/html/index.html
endif
: # Use jquery from Debian package, so prune shipped one
-rm doc/_build/html/_static/jquery.js