* Package name    : python3-hawkmoth
  Version         : 0.9.0
  Upstream Author : Jani Nikula
* URL             : https://github.com/jnikula/hawkmoth
* License         : BSD 2 clause
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : minimalistic Sphinx C Domain autodoc directive extension

Incorporate formatted C source code comments written in
reStructuredText into Sphinx based documentation.  Hawkmoth focuses on
simplicity of design, implementation and use.

Roughly speaking, it's replacement for Doxygen that integrates nicer with documentation written in Sphinx.
It seems useful in general. We're considering using it in notmuch.
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Bump. Looks like this has been pretty much ignored and forgotten.

Hawkmoth would benefit from distro packaging, because it depends on a
native package not available via pip (python3-clang and its
dependencies).

What could I do to move things forward?

BR,
Jani.

Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:

Maybe you can do a better job than I did of convincing people that
hawkmoth will useful to a broad enough set of users of Debian to make
the maintenance burden worthwhile. One very common justification is that
it is or will be required to build other packages. A quick search for
"hawkmoth" on codesearch.debian.net suggest that it is at least used
upstream by some other packages. I don't know what those packages are
doing now (not building docs?) but maybe you do, since one of them is
mesa. OTOH network manager references hawkmoth via a vendored library,
which supports the guess of not building docs.