try to ship the sphinx documentation with the package, untested

debian/control

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
              , python-zbar
              , python-zbarpygtk
              , python-docutils
+             , python-sphinx
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
 Homepage: http://web.monkeysphere.info/monkeysign
 Vcs-Git: git://git.monkeysphere.info/monkeysign

debian/doc-base

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ Format: text
 Files: /usr/share/doc/monkeysign/presentation.rst
 
 Format: HTML
-Index: /usr/share/doc/monkeysign/presentation.html
-Files: /usr/share/doc/monkeysign/presentation.html
+Index: /usr/share/doc/monkeysign/html/index.html
+Files: /usr/share/doc/monkeysign/html/

debian/docs

 README.mdwn
 HACKING.mdwn
-doc/presentation*
-doc/ui/
+doc/html/

debian/rules

@@ -8,10 +8,14 @@
 export DH_OPTIONS
 
 %:
-	dh $@  --with=python2
+	dh $@  --with=python2,sphinxdoc
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install
         # workaround a limitation in distutils, see
         # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743150
 	ln -sf monkeysign debian/monkeysign/usr/bin/monkeyscan
+
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	dh_auto_build
+	python setup.py build_sphinx

setup.cfg

@@ -5,3 +5,8 @@ parsers=monkeysign:monkeysign.cli:MonkeysignCli.parser
 
 [build_slides]
 file=doc/presentation.rst
+
+[build_sphinx]
+source-dir = doc
+build-dir  = doc
+all_files  = 1