diff --git a/debian/patches/no-intersphinx.patch b/debian/patches/no-intersphinx.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec756ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/no-intersphinx.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Description: Do not use intersphinx
+ Avoids network use when building sphinx docs.
+Author: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
+Forwarded: not-needed
+Last-Update: 2014-01-28
+
+--- oslo.messaging-1.2.0~a11.orig/doc/source/conf.py
++++ oslo.messaging-1.2.0~a11/doc/source/conf.py
+@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('../.
+ 
+ # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+ # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
+-extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'oslo.sphinx']
++extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'oslo.sphinx']
+ 
+ # autodoc generation is a bit aggressive and a nuisance when doing heavy
+ # text edit cycles.
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
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index 0000000..1813196
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+no-intersphinx.patch
diff --git a/debian/python-oslo.messaging.doc-base b/debian/python-oslo.messaging.doc-base
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..151129c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/python-oslo.messaging.doc-base
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Document: python-oslo.messaging
+Title: python-oslo.messaging Documentation
+Author: OpenStack
+Abstract: Sphinx documentation for python-oslo.messaging
+Section: Network/File Transfer
+
+Format: HTML
+Index: /usr/share/doc/python-oslo.messaging/html/index.html
+Files: /usr/share/doc/python-oslo.messaging/html/*