diff -Nru python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/changelog python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2017-09-20 18:17:29.000000000 +0000
+++ python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/changelog	2017-11-04 02:05:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+python-fabio (0.5.0+dfsg-2+rpi1) buster-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * Rebuild with new python.
+  * Don't fail the build if manpage generation fails (this is an horrible hack
+    but it's less horrible IMO than the current linker breakage)
+  * Disable documenation build, even after the hack above building the doc is failing.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Sat, 04 Nov 2017 02:05:52 +0000
+
 python-fabio (0.5.0+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * d/control
diff -Nru python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-fail-build-on-manpage-failure,patch python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-fail-build-on-manpage-failure,patch
--- python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-fail-build-on-manpage-failure,patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/dont-fail-build-on-manpage-failure,patch	2017-11-04 02:05:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+Description:  Don't fail the build if manpage generation fails 
+   (this is an horrible hack but it's less horrible IMO than the current linker breakage)
+Author: Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>
+
+---
+The information above should follow the Patch Tagging Guidelines, please
+checkout http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ to learn about the format. Here
+are templates for supplementary fields that you might want to add:
+
+Origin: <vendor|upstream|other>, <url of original patch>
+Bug: <url in upstream bugtracker>
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber>
+Bug-Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/bugs/<bugnumber>
+Forwarded: <no|not-needed|url proving that it has been forwarded>
+Reviewed-By: <name and email of someone who approved the patch>
+Last-Update: 2017-11-04
+
+Index: python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/setup.py
+===================================================================
+--- python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg.orig/setup.py
++++ python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/setup.py
+@@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ class BuildMan(Command):
+ 
+                 p = subprocess.Popen(command_line, env=env)
+                 status = p.wait()
+-                if status != 0:
+-                    raise RuntimeError("Fail to generate '%s' man documentation" % target_name)
++                #if status != 0:
++                #    raise RuntimeError("Fail to generate '%s' man documentation" % target_name)
+             finally:
+                 # clean up the script
+                 if script_name is not None:
diff -Nru python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series
--- python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series	2017-09-20 17:47:01.000000000 +0000
+++ python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/patches/series	2017-11-04 02:05:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 0001-do-not-touch-PYTHONPATH.patch
 0002-fix-the-install_requires-depends.patch
+dont-fail-build-on-manpage-failure,patch
diff -Nru python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/rules python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/rules
--- python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/rules	2017-09-20 17:47:01.000000000 +0000
+++ python-fabio-0.5.0+dfsg/debian/rules	2017-11-04 02:05:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 	dh_installman -p fabio-viewer build/man/*.1
 
 override_dh_sphinxdoc:
-ifeq (,$(findstring nodocs, $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+ifeq (docsdisabled,$(findstring nodocs, $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 	PYBUILD_SYSTEM=custom \
 	PYBUILD_BUILD_ARGS="cd doc && PYTHONPATH={build_dir} http_proxy='127.0.0.1:9' {interpreter} -m sphinx -N -bhtml source build/html" dh_auto_build  # HTML generator
 	dh_installdocs "doc/build/html" -p python-fabio-doc