[Bug 1799807] Re: Sphinx documentation no longer available online (apt.alioth.debian.org unavailable)

[Peter Odding]

For whatever it's worth: I wouldn't mind spending a bit of time trying
to set up https://python-apt.readthedocs.io/ based on the git repository
at https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt, although I can't
tell if this plan will actually work without trying it (for example I
don't know if the dependencies of the documentation build will be
available in the RTD environment).

PS. The "information type" change was unintended, which explains why I
reverted it; I didn't realize that my (accidental) mouse click would
change the bug report without some form of confirmation...

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Title:
  Sphinx documentation no longer available online (apt.alioth.debian.org
  unavailable)

Status in python-apt package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While working on the development of a Python package I created (deb-
  pkg-tools) that uses python-apt and refers to its documentation I
  noticed that the online documentation seems to have disappeared...

  This makes it impossible for my project to cross-reference the python-
  apt documentation, something that used to work fine a few months ago
  :-(. Here's what Sphinx has to say on the matter:

  $ make docs
  Running Sphinx v1.8.1
  loading translations [en]... done
  loading pickled environment... done
  loading intersphinx inventory from https://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/objects.inv...
  WARNING: failed to reach any of the inventories with the following issues:
  WARNING: intersphinx inventory 'https://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/objects.inv' not fetchable due to <class 'requests.exceptions.ConnectionError'>: ('intersphinx inventory %r not fetchable due to %s: %s', 'https://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/objects.inv', <class 'requests.exceptions.ConnectionError'>, ConnectionError(...))

  When I look at https://readthedocs.org/projects/deb-pkg-
  tools/builds/6801480/ I can see that in February 2018 this was still
  working fine, but the domain apt.alioth.debian.org no longer resolves.

  It might be that the documentation has moved somewhere else, without a
  redirect in place, however I spent more than an hour looking and
  couldn't find the new location (if it exists):

  1. https://pypi.org/project/python-apt/ links to the broken domain.
  2. http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/examples.html also links to the broken domain.

  Would it be possible to make the Sphinx based documentation on python-
  apt available online again? Personally I have good experiences with
  Read The Docs and I'd love to see https://python-apt.readthedocs.io/
  be brought into existence 😇.

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